{"id":194,"date":"2006-02-26T13:22:19","date_gmt":"2006-02-26T13:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2006-02-26T13:22:19","modified_gmt":"2006-02-26T13:22:19","slug":"watching-preston-reed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Watching Preston Reed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my identities is &#8216;musician&#8217;, which basically means that I spend a fair bit of time messing with musical instruments and imagining virtuosities I don&#8217;t possess and envying the skills of others. Most of it is conducted  via <i>hearing<\/i> &#8211;I don&#8217;t see that many live acts, and generally when I do have live-act opportunities I&#8217;m not close enough to see the fine details of performance. Most video of musicians is done by people who don&#8217;t have the musician sensibilities that want to see the HANDS&#8230; An example of unadorned video of an amazing musician is a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/calendar\/kc_video_dyn.cfm?encoded=http%3A%2F%2Fplay%2Erbn%2Ecom%2F%3Furl%3Dkennedy%2Fkennedyg2%2Fg2demand%2F01312006%5F1800%5FMSN%2Erm%26proto%3Drtsp&#038;header_image=header_mil_video.gif\">performance by Preston Reed<\/a> at the Kennedy Center. It&#8217;s more than an hour of streaming, and seeing him play adds another dimension or two, for even the most jaded guitar player. Turns out that <a href=\"http:\/\/prestonreed.typepad.com\/\">he&#8217;s blogging too<\/a>, about music&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my identities is &#8216;musician&#8217;, which basically means that I spend a fair bit of time messing with musical instruments and imagining virtuosities I don&#8217;t possess and envying the skills of others. Most of it is conducted via hearing &#8211;I don&#8217;t see that many live acts, and generally when I do have live-act opportunities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}