{"id":7743,"date":"2010-12-23T15:31:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T20:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/7743\/comfort-zone\/"},"modified":"2010-12-23T15:31:10","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T20:31:10","slug":"comfort-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/7743\/comfort-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"out of the comfort zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">tonight I plan to go to an Open Mic I&#8217;ve never been to; I know the guy who runs it, but I won&#8217;t (or barely) know the Musicians that will be there&#8230;it&#8217;s NOT a genre-specific o.m., meaning any Musical style is OK&#8230;and that&#8217;s good, I haven&#8217;t done any &#8220;twanging&#8221; in awhile&#8230;but I&#8217;m still nervous about it&#8230;it&#8217;s really no farther away than the wed night Blues jam and that&#8217;s good too&#8230;it&#8217;s a common thing, but one of my so-called hangups is that 7pm feels like 11pm, even though the days started getting minutely longer a couple of days ago&#8230;still, when the time comes, I&#8217;ll load up the car and go&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">two of the best female singers I know personally have surprising voices&#8230;that is, the voice doesn&#8217;t necesarily go with the face (IMHO) especially in Jennifer&#8217;s case&#8230;to clarify&#8211;Jenn is about 30, her VOICE is NOT that of a 30 year old woman IMHO&#8230;Sherri too, although I can&#8217;t explain what I mean in her case&#8230;trying not to let whatever feelings I have for her color my judgement&#8230;LOTSA people think she&#8217;s an awesome singer&#8230;we will present our evidence when her album comes out&#8230;apparently I have a surprising voice too&#8230;I don&#8217;t wanna know what the people who have complimented me were\u00a0 thinking before I opened my mouth to sing&#8230;I DO know what I look like, and I can&#8217;t help THAT&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">it&#8217;s another good day so far&#8230;for which I&#8217;m grateful&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tonight I plan to go to an Open Mic I&#8217;ve never been to; I know the guy who runs it, but I won&#8217;t (or barely) know the Musicians that will be there&#8230;it&#8217;s NOT a genre-specific o.m., meaning any Musical style is OK&#8230;and that&#8217;s good, I haven&#8217;t done any &#8220;twanging&#8221; in awhile&#8230;but I&#8217;m still nervous about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7743","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=7743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}