{"id":1958,"date":"2016-07-30T15:03:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T19:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.info\/blog\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2016-07-30T15:03:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T19:03:02","slug":"top-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2016\/07\/30\/top-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from playing at the Hard Knox Roller Girls Carnival. There weren&#8217;t a lot of people, but they were good people. I got a tip specifically for playing &#8220;Waist Deep in the Big Muddy&#8221;, and a child (probably prompted by his parent, who had done her homework) asked me to play &#8220;The Last Wolf&#8221;. I got $15 in tips for a 45-minute performance, better than I was getting at my last job. I had a good time. It was indoors but in a non-cooled building.  This was an almost impromptu performance &#8212; someone invited me to the event site on Facebook about a week and a half ago, and I opened my mouth about performing; a few days ago someone on the planning committee asked what kind of music I played, listened to some of my online stuff, and asked me on Thursday to perform.  I almost didn&#8217;t get up on time &#8212; my Echo did not do my alarm. But all is well, and I had a nice time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from playing at the Hard Knox Roller Girls Carnival. There weren&#8217;t a lot of people, but they were good people. I got a tip specifically for playing &#8220;Waist Deep in the Big Muddy&#8221;, and a child (probably prompted by his parent, who had done her homework) asked me to play &#8220;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":[1],"tags":[21,41],"class_list":["post-1958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-folk","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1959,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions\/1959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}