{"id":3035,"date":"2008-10-10T08:59:09","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T08:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/10\/hoedown-throwdown\/"},"modified":"2008-10-10T08:59:09","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T08:59:09","slug":"hoedown-throwdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/10\/hoedown-throwdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoedown Throwdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a frustrating and annoying week here at Chateau Steelypips, so I was probably in the perfect mood for Mike Hoye’s subway busker story<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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After a relatively crappy day, I got off the subway, and there’s a couple of buskers playing a fiddle and a banjo at the station. And they’re really going at it, playing the hell out of those things, and I can’t figure out why ’til I get up close. The answer turns out to be that a couple of local b-boys have decided that it’s time to throw down, to the tune of these guys playing some good old-time country fiddlin’ and pickin’.<\/p>\n

And man, did that cheer me up.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He’s got video, and he’s right. It’s weirdly cheering. It’s no where the hell is Matt<\/a>, but it’s got a little of the same vibe. Sometimes, people don’t suck all that much.<\/p>\n

Go check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a frustrating and annoying week here at Chateau Steelypips, so I was probably in the perfect mood for Mike Hoye’s subway busker story: After a relatively crappy day, I got off the subway, and there’s a couple of buskers playing a fiddle and a banjo at the station. And they’re really going at… Continue reading Hoedown Throwdown<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop_culture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}