{"id":182113,"date":"2015-12-15T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/15\/hard-core-badass\/"},"modified":"2015-12-15T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T00:12:00","slug":"hard-core-badass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/15\/hard-core-badass\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Core Badass!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie, my son, and section leaders for the percussion section, was practicing in band for this Thursday&#8217;s concert.<\/p>\n<p>He was playing the bongos, and there was an incident.<\/p>\n<p>I got the following texts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">I pulled a Pete Townshend.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">I was playing the bongo part when I looked down and saw pink on one of the heads. I played too hard and the skin came off one of my knuckles.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I replied:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Thank God you didn&#8217;t pull a Keith Moon.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">We would have to pay to rebuild the f%$#ing stage.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No worries,  &#8216;Tis but a scratch. <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s still good for the concert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie, my son, and section leaders for the percussion section, was practicing in band for this Thursday&#8217;s concert. He was playing the bongos, and there was an incident. I got the following texts: I pulled a Pete Townshend.\u2026\u2026\u2026 I was playing the bongo part when I looked down and saw pink on one of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,976,1137,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-family","category-music","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}