{"id":1124,"date":"2011-08-22T19:16:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T01:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2011-08-22T19:16:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T01:16:05","slug":"first-time-i-met-the-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1124","title":{"rendered":"first time I met the blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/08\/the-first-time-i-met-the-blues.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1125\" title=\"the first time i met the blues\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/08\/the-first-time-i-met-the-blues.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-first-time-i-met-the-blues.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-first-time-i-met-the-blues-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-first-time-i-met-the-blues-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day two hundred and thirty-four:<\/strong> I&#8217;ve been listening to CDs since I moved to Philadelphia, and trying to explore the ones that I&#8217;ve been given over the years, but never really listened to. When I first put in a compilation titled &#8220;Chicago Blues: The Golden Age&#8221; I thought I might make it through all the way once. Somehow I forgot to take it out of the 5-disc player, so when it came around again I got another dose. All the songs are remarkable for one reason or another, but &#8220;First Time I Met the Blues&#8221; sung by Buddy Guy was the one that initially caught my ear. His voice is off the hook! Today&#8217;s sketch is inspired by those blues, recorded in Chicago on March 2, 1960.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day two hundred and thirty-four: I&#8217;ve been listening to CDs since I moved to Philadelphia, and trying to explore the ones that I&#8217;ve been given over the years, but never really listened to. When I first put in a compilation titled &#8220;Chicago Blues: The Golden Age&#8221; I thought I might make it through all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[12,80,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}