{"id":2657,"date":"2010-03-21T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2013-02-20T19:02:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T03:02:01","slug":"ukulele-open-mic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/21\/ukulele-open-mic-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukulele Open Mic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then someone asks me if I <em>really<\/em> play the uke. Yeah, I do. I&#8217;m not very good but I love to play. No, I mean I <strong>REALLY<\/strong> love to play. And the uke has been a big help with my stage fright issues. Occasionally,\u00a0 just to prove that I play and that the world will not crumble if I play in public, I do THIS. For the record, I&#8217;m very realistic &#8212; I know that I play okay and my singing, well, I&#8217;m mostly on key, but that&#8217;s about it.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wBkKomzFZog&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"480\" height=\"385\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wBkKomzFZog&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a third take and has mistakes &#8212; it was way better when A. played with me because, hello, more uke! And yes, my t-shirt, a gift from a uke playing friend, really does say &#8220;Celebrating 666 years of the Plague&#8221; because, well, I&#8217;m kind of weird and nerdy. Did I mention I play the uke? You should too, it&#8217;s crazy fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then someone asks me if I really play the uke. Yeah, I do. I&#8217;m not very good but I love to play. No, I mean I REALLY love to play. And the uke has been a big help with my stage fright issues. Occasionally,\u00a0 just to prove that I play and that &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Ukulele Open Mic\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/21\/ukulele-open-mic-2\/#more-2657\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ukulele Open Mic\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[315,69],"class_list":["post-2657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ukulele","tag-music","tag-uketopia","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2661,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions\/2661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}