{"id":366,"date":"2007-01-22T00:36:41","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T15:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-01-22\/366"},"modified":"2007-06-30T20:03:46","modified_gmt":"2007-06-30T11:03:46","slug":"unplugged-anthonys-acoustic-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-01-22\/366","title":{"rendered":"Unplugged: Anthony’s Acoustic Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
<\/a>Eric Clapton?<\/span><\/div>\n\n

Last summer, we got a cheap<\/span> toy guitar for\nAnthony. Not long before<\/span> he turned four last fall, he gave us an impromptu\nacoustic concert.<\/p>\n\n
\n<\/a><\/td>\n\n<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n\n
Just look at that fingering — this kid really knows his stuff!<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<\/table>\n\n
<\/a>He's comfortable having the big stage all to himself<\/span><\/div>\n\n
<\/a><\/div>\n\n

\n\nOf course, not even Eric Clapton<\/a> could make music with this piece-of-crap\nplastic thing with wet spaghetti for strings. Whatever noise Anthony was\nmaking with it could be construed as “music” only in the most\ngenerous rose-colored light that only a parent<\/span> sees in... a drunk,<\/span> deaf\nparent, that is.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nNevertheless, it was extremely enjoyable to watch.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nHe used one of those\nplastic things that keeps a bread<\/span> bag closed for the pick.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nAs far as I know, he's never seen someone playing a guitar<\/span> (except for\nFumie and me playing with his toy), so I don't<\/span> know where he picked up the\nproper look. But he's certainly got that down... he looks like a true<\/span> pro.\n\n<\/p>

\n(More pics here<\/a>.)\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of course, not even Eric Clapton could make music with this piece-of-crap plastic thing with wet spaghetti for strings. Whatever noise Anthony was making with it could be construed as \"music\" only in the most generous rose-colored light that only a parent sees in... a drunk, deaf parent, that is. <\/p>

Nevertheless, it was extremely enjoyable to watch. <\/p>

He used one of those plastic things that keeps a bread bag closed for the pick. <\/p>

As far as I know, he's never seen someone playing a guitar (except for Fumie and me playing with his toy), so I [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}