{"id":373,"date":"2006-07-26T09:49:08","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T16:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=373"},"modified":"2006-07-26T11:33:18","modified_gmt":"2006-07-26T18:33:18","slug":"sport-uke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/26\/sport-uke\/","title":{"rendered":"Sport Uke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/70092316@N00\/198902740\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"327\" height=\"540\" alt=\"Braque's Uke\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/65\/198902740_3610a60f32_o.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A month or two back I ordered a sport uke, a little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fleamarketmusic.com\/store\/Scripts\/prodView.asp?idproduct=166\">Flea<\/a> to take camping and on airplanes and leave in the hot car when I&#8217;m on some epic road trip. Yesterday I picked up my mango colored travel companion. The strings are slipping a little coz they&#8217;re new, but this little guy sounds okay and plays rather nicely for a plastic uke. And it matches my kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>Here it is pretending to be a early Georges Braque painting: Orange uke with blue coffee cup. The uke doesn&#8217;t have a name yet but I&#8217;m thinking of calling it Georges Braque.<\/p>\n<p>And in case you&#8217;re wondering, currently on the playlist are Death Cab&#8217;s &#8220;I&#8217;ll follow you into the dark&#8221; and The Band&#8217;s classic &#8220;The night they drove old Dixie down.&#8221; I&#8217;m trying to decide what to play at the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleukulele.org\/\">SUPA<\/a> picnic.<\/p>\n<p>[tags]ukulele, Georges Braque[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month or two back I ordered a sport uke, a little Flea to take camping and on airplanes and leave in the hot car when I&#8217;m on some epic road trip. Yesterday I picked up my mango colored travel companion. The strings are slipping a little coz they&#8217;re new, but this little guy sounds &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Sport Uke\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/26\/sport-uke\/#more-373\" aria-label=\"Read more about Sport Uke\"><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":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ukulele","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\/373","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=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}