{"id":19124,"date":"2011-02-27T00:04:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T05:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/19124\/no-meant-it-but\/"},"modified":"2011-02-27T00:04:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T05:04:56","slug":"no-meant-it-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/19124\/no-meant-it-but\/","title":{"rendered":"I said &#8220;no&#8221; and I meant it, but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size: medium;color: #000000\">&#8230;I wanted to say &#8220;yes&#8221;&#8230;a drummer friend of mine invited me to sit in with his band (I think he needed to stretch his legs&#8211;it was a tiny place) but frankly I was too scared&#8230;went to see another band, they were pretty good&#8230;a member of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">audience<\/span> suggested I sing with that band&#8211;I can only assume she knows me from somewhere&#8230;IF for no other reason than the singing voice isn&#8217;t all the way back yet, I didn&#8217;t sing with the band&#8230;and that&#8217;s FINE&#8230;saw one of my customers from the grocery store&#8211;I&#8217;ve been gone almost a year and a half&#8211;that was pleasant enough&#8230;she couldn&#8217;t remember MY name, and I&#8217;ve never known her&#8217;s&#8230;she still looks good, and she&#8217;s still married&#8230;and I still look like this; and I&#8217;m not yet working&#8230;but it was a good Saturday evening out&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;I wanted to say &#8220;yes&#8221;&#8230;a drummer friend of mine invited me to sit in with his band (I think he needed to stretch his legs&#8211;it was a tiny place) but frankly I was too scared&#8230;went to see another band, they were pretty good&#8230;a member of the audience suggested I sing with that band&#8211;I can only [&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-19124","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\/19124","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=19124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}