{"id":82038,"date":"2012-02-15T00:20:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T05:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/82038\/considered-2\/"},"modified":"2012-02-15T00:20:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T05:20:25","slug":"considered-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/82038\/considered-2\/","title":{"rendered":"all things considered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">the Bel Air gig went quite well, all things considered&#8230;the PA (an emergency purchase to replace SLR&#8217;s PA) worked, thank goodness&#8230;the singer was (mostly) over her cold; there was a grandchild in the hospital, *I* didn&#8217;t have enuff money in the Bank to cover the deposit for the rental car&#8230;the patrons of the art gallery were surprised to see\/hear us&#8230;and we were not paid what we agreed to&#8230;The grandchild ended up w\/stitches above her eye, she&#8217;s OK otherwise&#8230;the singer paid me outta her own pocket, some members of the audience seemed impressed&#8230;and most significantly, the ex-wife helped me get the car&#8211;a Dodge Caravan&#8230;it seemed loaded to me&#8230;I used my iPod in it, I got used to it fairly quickly (sigh)&#8230;ultimately it was a good day, for which I am grateful&#8230;I dunno who to be grateful TO, but I&#8217;m grateful in any case&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">ADDENDUM&#8211;on the way home from the gig, I stopped by an open mic&#8230;ended up singing a few&#8211;felt naked w\/o a guitar &#8217;round my neck&#8230;but it was innaresting&#8230;Sang The Joker, Heartbreak Hotel (!), Brown Sugar and You Send Me&#8230;the singing wasn&#8217;t all that bad, the backing band wasn&#8217;t all that good; open mics are like that&#8230;and my ears are ringing a bit&#8230;from the gig and\/or the open mic and\/or having the iPod in the car&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the Bel Air gig went quite well, all things considered&#8230;the PA (an emergency purchase to replace SLR&#8217;s PA) worked, thank goodness&#8230;the singer was (mostly) over her cold; there was a grandchild in the hospital, *I* didn&#8217;t have enuff money in the Bank to cover the deposit for the rental car&#8230;the patrons of the art gallery [&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-82038","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\/82038","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=82038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}