{"id":193262,"date":"2009-01-03T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/03\/my-mouth-writing-checks\/"},"modified":"2009-01-03T20:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T01:40:00","slug":"my-mouth-writing-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/03\/my-mouth-writing-checks\/","title":{"rendered":"My Mouth Writing Checks&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I was at an Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) event. <\/p>\n<p>The SCA is a medieval living history group, and the event was Day of Dance II &#038; Bardic Bachanal.<\/p>\n<p>It was potluck with dancing and bardic (music and story telling).<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the evening, someone publicly thanked the musicians, and we all applauded, and then I shouted out, &#8220;Play Freebird.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And damned if they did not start to play &#8220;Freebird&#8221;, on a guitar, a mandolin, a tenor recorder, and a bowed psalter&#8230;The lyrics were a filk, rather than the original, but the tune was there.<\/p>\n<p>My life is complete now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I was at an Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) event. The SCA is a medieval living history group, and the event was Day of Dance II &#038; Bardic Bachanal. It was potluck with dancing and bardic (music and story telling). At the end of the evening, someone publicly thanked the musicians, and we all &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193262"}],"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=193262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}