{"id":34769,"date":"2011-05-06T02:21:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T06:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/34769\/starts-ends-things\/"},"modified":"2011-05-06T02:21:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T06:21:33","slug":"starts-ends-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/34769\/starts-ends-things\/","title":{"rendered":"how it starts and how it ends are sometimes two different things&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;color: #000000;font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif\">went to the thusday night O.M. with a dollar in my pocket and no singing voice&#8230;came home with $20 (a loan) and a bit of a voice to sing with&#8230;I&#8217;d like to think I was able to sweat this cold outta my system, more or less&#8230;nearly got into a fight over the seating arrangement (!) how fuckin&#8217; anal is the person who is that possessive of a CHAIR? But the set of Who tunes went well&#8211;that was my reason for going, because I agreed to&#8230;to get really technical, I seem to have lost my &#8220;whammy bar&#8221; but luckily I have a spare&#8230;aside from the conflict over furniture, I had fun&#8230;other than financially, Life is Good&#8211;I think&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;color: #000000;font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif\">although I did get chastised on a different website for being insensitive to the suffering of others&#8211;specifically the victims of the tornado outbreak in the Southern U.S. I&#8217;m NOT insensitive to their situation by any means, but fairly powerless to help in ways that matter&#8230;I admit that my belief in the power of prayer is shakey, but that&#8217;s all I have&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;color: #000000;font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif\">ADDENDUM&#8211;way back in the day, a group of FRIENDS, with at least some affection for each other (unspoken of course) and similar Musical tastes would form a Band&#8230;what happened to that? A lot of my friends seem to be in bands of convenience&#8230;there seems to be a fair amount of conflict or discord&#8230;this kinda bothers me&#8230;I&#8217;m not yet actually in a band, I&#8217;m mostly a &#8220;gun for hire&#8221; kinda guy; I wanna be in a Band, but I can be extremely picky about what kind of Band I wanna be in&#8230;Theoretically I&#8217;d like to be in a band that could play damn near anything (from ABBA to Zappa) but I know that&#8217;s unrealistic&#8230;Some of my friends are in more than one band, for whatever reason&#8230;I just wanna be in one&#8230;one that works steadily, one that is popular and one that is respected by other Musicians&#8230;it&#8217;s out there somewhere&#8230;in the meantime, I&#8217;ve got a gig tonight&#8211;an open mic; it will be fun, financially satisfying, and frustrating&#8230;Life is like that sometimes, and generally for me, Life is Good&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>went to the thusday night O.M. with a dollar in my pocket and no singing voice&#8230;came home with $20 (a loan) and a bit of a voice to sing with&#8230;I&#8217;d like to think I was able to sweat this cold outta my system, more or less&#8230;nearly got into a fight over the seating arrangement (!) [&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-34769","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\/34769","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=34769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}