{"id":76,"date":"2006-03-24T23:02:19","date_gmt":"2006-03-25T04:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=76"},"modified":"2006-03-25T22:40:10","modified_gmt":"2006-03-26T03:40:10","slug":"celtic-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/03\/24\/celtic-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crowd at Murphy&#8217;s Inn<br \/>\nwas huge and celtic<br \/>\nmeaning every generation was represented<br \/>\nlittle kids, grannies, poppas<br \/>\nguys in plaid shirts and muscles<br \/>\nbabes in little string-held tanktops<!--more--><br \/>\nwith lots of wild hair and &#8216;tude<br \/>\nand the preliminary solo act<br \/>\nwas just finishing up<br \/>\nand they were diluting the lights<br \/>\nso the place was dark and rainbowed<br \/>\nand the emcee was winding us up<br \/>\nand I was standing in a too-warm<br \/>\nleather jacket and brandishing<br \/>\na half-full bottle of<br \/>\nSleeman&#8217;s Genuine Draft \u2122<br \/>\nand jammed standing against the bar<br \/>\nbeside an extreme blonde chick<br \/>\nwho was hugging everybody but me<br \/>\nand I was just beginning to wonder<br \/>\nhow far down the eaglewing tats<br \/>\nthat disappeared into her tanktop<br \/>\nwent<br \/>\nwhen I noticed a little kid<br \/>\nspinning around the dance floor<br \/>\nin the changing colored light<br \/>\nhaving a whale of a time<br \/>\nand as the band struck up and blew us away<br \/>\nwith its wall of sound that ran the gamut<br \/>\nback and forth between celtic rock and klesmer<br \/>\nI watched the kid<br \/>\nmaybe four years old<br \/>\nflying over Scotland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crowd at Murphy&#8217;s Inn was huge and celtic meaning every generation was represented little kids, grannies, poppas guys in plaid shirts and muscles babes in little string-held tanktops<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}