{"id":108190,"date":"2013-06-30T01:34:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T05:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/108190\/because-i-was-me\/"},"modified":"2013-06-30T01:34:53","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T05:34:53","slug":"because-i-was-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/108190\/because-i-was-me\/","title":{"rendered":"because I was me&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">tonight&#8217;s gig went very well IMO&#8230;Frankly I was pretty happy with my guitar playing for once&#8230;I think that was because I DIDN&#8217;T get into a &#8220;shooting match&#8221; with the other guitarist&#8230;I played like ME and he played like HIMSELF&#8230;We traded riffs back and forth once or twice and that was neat&#8230;Stylistically and tone wise we&#8217;re quite different&#8230;and he can play some things that I can&#8217;t play&#8230;but I think we play together very well&#8230;I actually had some new (for me anyway) ideas, THAT felt good&#8230;and I tried not repeat myself, except when repetition was the whole point of the idea&#8230;Dunno if the &#8220;civilians&#8221; (the audience) notice or care about stuff like that&#8230;but it made ME feel good&#8230;and I somehow managed to keep my energy level fairly high from the beginning to the end of the show&#8230;THAT was a surprise&#8230;<br \/>\n <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">Dunno what the rest of the weekend is gonna be like&#8230;dunno if I&#8217;m over the stomach problem, it&#8217;s possible&#8230;Life is not bad&#8230;it&#8217;s so hard to &#8220;de-compress&#8221; after a gig, but I&#8217;m trying to&#8230;<br \/>\n <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tonight&#8217;s gig went very well IMO&#8230;Frankly I was pretty happy with my guitar playing for once&#8230;I think that was because I DIDN&#8217;T get into a &#8220;shooting match&#8221; with the other guitarist&#8230;I played like ME and he played like HIMSELF&#8230;We traded riffs back and forth once or twice and that was neat&#8230;Stylistically and tone wise we&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}