{"id":223,"date":"2007-11-23T22:53:59","date_gmt":"2007-11-24T03:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/?p=223"},"modified":"2007-11-23T22:53:59","modified_gmt":"2007-11-24T03:53:59","slug":"the-unhappy-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/the-unhappy-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unhappy Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Just wow.<\/p>\n<p>What can you say about a night where you share a bill with one of your musical heroes (Roger Miller from Mission of Burma) and get interviewed by a musical critic who you grew up reading (Jim Sullivan)?<\/p>\n<p>I believe that my smile speaks for itself:<\/p>\n<p><center><a title=\"Me and Roger Miller by hopers, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hopers\/2058855660\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Me and Roger Miller\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2317\/2058855660_d51eb96dbc.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center><center> <\/center><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\"><center> <\/center><\/div>\n<p>Ok, I suppose that I should probably say more than that.<\/p>\n<p>My set went really well. I made some good jokes, got people laughing. Despite it being cold and flu season, my voice held up. I got lots of compliments on my singing.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Sullivan is going to be writing something about the event for the Boston Phoenix next week. If I get some press, I will make sure to link it up here. He also asked for a copy of my CD (which I will be sending to him ASAP), so that he can review it for his website.<\/p>\n<p>This makes me realize that I really need to record another CD at some point. I mean, it&#8217;s only been like 6 or 7 years.<\/p>\n<p>It was a great night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Just wow. What can you say about a night where you share a bill with one of your musical heroes (Roger Miller from Mission of Burma) and get interviewed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-photos","category-random"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yggS-3B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}