{"id":99021,"date":"2012-10-30T22:21:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T02:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/99021\/sandy\/"},"modified":"2012-10-30T22:21:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T02:21:42","slug":"sandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/99021\/sandy\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Sandy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And here in Seattle, it&#8217;s been raining non-stop for the last 48 hours&#8230;  Not because we&#8217;re experiencing a hurricane, just because we&#8217;re Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Please enjoy my submission for the 37th season of the ukulele.  It\u2019s a tropical\u2026err\u2026 I mean\u2026 topical song about the events of this week.  I\u2019ll be the first to admit, it\u2019s kinda rough, particularly starting about half-way through, but it only took me three takes!  This percussive stuff is hard!  My fingers hurt!<\/p>\n<p>One thing I did learn though about the ukulele in making this vid is that the body-thumping I managed sporadically throughout the song must be transmitted by the sound hole of the uke much more so than the sounds produced by the strings.  What I mean is that the thumps and taps sounded a lot louder on the video with the uke pointed towards the camera than they did to my own ears  while playing them.<\/p>\n<p>Seasons of the Uke:  Entertaining AND educational!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Oh Sandy! (The Hurricane) Seasons of Ukulele: 37\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-IGRC3UfS1g?list=UUv3bcDHU6nuwh2HX-f0l7pQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And here in Seattle, it&#8217;s been raining non-stop for the last 48 hours&#8230; Not because we&#8217;re experiencing a hurricane, just because we&#8217;re Seattle. Please enjoy my submission for the 37th season of the ukulele. It\u2019s a tropical\u2026err\u2026 I mean\u2026 topical song about the events of this week. I\u2019ll be the first to admit, it\u2019s kinda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99021","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=99021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}