{"id":84236,"date":"2012-03-13T01:31:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T05:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/84236\/test-character\/"},"modified":"2012-03-13T01:31:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T05:31:12","slug":"test-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/84236\/test-character\/","title":{"rendered":"a test of character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">I wrote a five part Note on the other FB regarding open mics&#8230;Tonight I was put to the test behaviorally speaking&#8230;I was nervous when I got onstage and to cut down on set-up time, I used some borrowed gear&#8230;I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll make THAT mistake again, besides I&#8217;ve only got two stompboxes (I sure miss my Chorus pedal) to mess with&#8230;the houseband was just about the best I&#8217;ve heard&#8230;I dunno how versatile they are, but I suspect they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">could<\/span> play YOUR CHEATIN&#8217; HEART if ya asked them to&#8230;*I* would rather adjust my &#8220;setlist&#8221; to their natural style but I DID talk to someone who basically said &#8220;be yourself&#8221;&#8230;Well, my Self does have some funk in it, along with the Twang and the Rock&#8230;I had some fun, and wished that I coulda played again&#8230;but I didn&#8217;t make a stink about it&#8230;prolly won&#8217;t have the $5 next week, but who knows&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">ADDENDUM&#8211;now it&#8217;s the next day and it bugs me that I spent $5 PLUS the price of one diet coke (plus tip&#8211;and I tip big) and got to play just one song&#8230;But I&#8217;m not gonna slander the hosts, I just dunno when I&#8217;ll go back&#8230;went to an O.M. tonight; played some, sang a bit&#8230;Some guy walked in thru the door and basically announced that he was ready to play&#8211;and tried to muscle in on the set *I* was a part of&#8230;I never thought that was OK and it&#8217;s a mystery why anyone thinks it IS OK&#8230;and he&#8217;s not all that good a drummer&#8230;aarrgghh&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote a five part Note on the other FB regarding open mics&#8230;Tonight I was put to the test behaviorally speaking&#8230;I was nervous when I got onstage and to cut down on set-up time, I used some borrowed gear&#8230;I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll make THAT mistake again, besides I&#8217;ve only got two stompboxes (I sure miss [&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-84236","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\/84236","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=84236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}