{"id":2951,"date":"2010-05-03T21:09:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T04:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=2951"},"modified":"2013-07-11T20:37:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T03:37:44","slug":"auntie-margie-leads-song-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/03\/auntie-margie-leads-song-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"Auntie Margie Leads Song Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Auntie Margie by Nerd's Eye View, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nerdseyeview\/4576737315\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Auntie Margie\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4007\/4576737315_c300d7ce16.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Auntie made one of her students pass over his song book to me. Now I have a binder with her playlist and the names of everyone who committed to show up at Anna Ranch to entertain us. I have a color xeroxed watercolor of a hale (house) by a bridge and I have a little return address label with Margie&#8217;s address.<\/p>\n<p>I know exactly how this works. You line up a handful of likely people from your club or class. You tell them to put on their best aloha wear and to tune up the uke. You make a bunch of copies and you put them in order and you sit and play for strangers who may or may not be paying attention.<\/p>\n<p>They knew we were coming,they knew there was someone in the group who played. I asked to borrow a uke and one of the uncles handed me his, and another slid over while an auntie pushed a chair up for me. Then all of us, in the beautiful light filled hall at Anna Ranch sat down together and we sang.<\/p>\n<p>After, Auntie Margie gave me a big hug and took my face between her hands and kissed me. She waved her hands at one of the uncles and he gave me his notebook. It&#8217;s just a couple of xeroxed sheets of some songs I already know, but it&#8217;s a perfect souvenir.<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">My trip to the Big Island of Hawaii was sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigisland.org\/\">Big Island Visitor&#8217;s Bureau<\/a>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auntie made one of her students pass over his song book to me. Now I have a binder with her playlist and the names of everyone who committed to show up at Anna Ranch to entertain us. I have a color xeroxed watercolor of a hale (house) by a bridge and I have a little &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Auntie Margie Leads Song Circle\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/03\/auntie-margie-leads-song-circle\/#more-2951\" aria-label=\"Read more about Auntie Margie Leads Song Circle\"><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":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aloha-oy","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\/2951","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=2951"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7987,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions\/7987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}