{"id":10507,"date":"2015-02-12T21:18:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T21:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=10507"},"modified":"2015-02-12T21:19:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T21:19:48","slug":"blogathon-1215-ukelele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=10507","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 12\/15 \u2013 Ukelele!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to have bought a uke.<\/p>\n<p>This is obviously a musical land-grab.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to extend my awesomely poor rhythm and acoustic guitar-playing in to new territories.<\/p>\n<p>Living away from home during the week has a significant number of drawbacks.<\/p>\n<p>One &#8211; just one! &#8211; being that I am removed from my guitars.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I know I don&#8217;t get the urge to pick up a guitar every single day, but I do get the feeling that I want to, a couple of times a week.<\/p>\n<p>How am I going to do this?<\/p>\n<p>It came to me the other night.<\/p>\n<p>Get a ukelele!<\/p>\n<p>Yes, alright, I&#8217;ll confess that this thought came to me after watching this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fw8ZDwdyHJQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What could be better &#8211; and more portable &#8211; than a ukelele?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know it&#8217;s not a guitar.<\/p>\n<p>But so what?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll conquer the world with my mediocre musicianship.<\/p>\n<p>Just see if I don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to have bought a uke. This is obviously a musical land-grab. I&#8217;m going to extend my awesomely poor rhythm and acoustic guitar-playing in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}