{"id":110,"date":"2004-01-11T15:51:08","date_gmt":"2004-01-11T19:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2004-01-11T15:51:08","modified_gmt":"2004-01-11T19:51:08","slug":"frailing-miserably","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/11\/frailing-miserably\/","title":{"rendered":"frailing miserably"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago today, I started playing banjo. None of that &#8220;Duelling Banjos&#8221; picking style, either&nbsp;&mdash; this is old-time 5-string clawhammer, or frailing. I can play a few tunes, given the best efforts of my teacher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interlog.com\/~ragged\/chris_coole.html\">Chris Coole<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in Toronto on January 31st or February 1st, it&#8217;s worth seeing Chris play at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.sympatico.ca\/flying_cloud_folk\/\">Flying Cloud Folk Club<\/a> as part of the annual Banjo Special event. Last year was amazing; this year can only be better.<\/p>\n<p>I also owe a lot to approximately 50% of the Holy Modal Rounders, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chitown.com\/http\/music\/stampfel.html\">Peter Stampfel<\/a>. When he heard that I was taking up the banjo, called me from New York with tips on getting started. This quite unnecessary act of kindness seems typical of the banjo community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago today, I started playing banjo. None of that &#8220;Duelling Banjos&#8221; picking style, either&nbsp;&mdash; this is old-time 5-string clawhammer, or frailing. I can play a few tunes, given the best efforts of my teacher Chris Coole. If you&#8217;re in Toronto on January 31st or February 1st, it&#8217;s worth seeing Chris play at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[315,2902],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-anniversary","tag-banjo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}