{"id":3209,"date":"2014-04-07T05:26:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T05:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2014-04-07T05:27:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T05:27:08","slug":"best-moment-since-the-1919-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3209","title":{"rendered":"Best Moment Since The 1919 Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ronwiseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/piano-close-up-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"498\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Older <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?list=PLn-noC-_Y1L4mpaJlGdwIcSO8AIMv-t7S&amp;v=MQlNUXeyU34\">brother Ronnie was into the blues<\/a> which was the most fortunate thing for his little brother. To have Ronnie teach the blues was like being born into a Zen monastery and real blues too, Otis Spann, Memphis Slim, Big Bill Broonzy &#8211; not the tiny-talent-time folks who claim to be members of the team but are in fact just cheerleaders or worse, mascots. It has to be the same frequency as Howlin&#8217; Wolf, Lightnin&#8217; Hopkins, Sister Rosetta Tharpe or else it is just iceberg lettuce pretending to be a salad. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/sister_tharpe.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But all that is to say I saw Muddy Waters twice in concert growing up in Winnipeg and the coolest part about the 2cnd show was that Mayor Bill Norrie came out halfway through and give him a plaque substantiating his honourary Winnipeg citizenship because Winnipeg is a Cree word meaning Muddy Water.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Older brother Ronnie was into the blues which was the most fortunate thing for his little brother. To have Ronnie teach the blues was like being born into a Zen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3209\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[240],"tags":[639,640,641],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-performing","tag-best-muddy-waters-concert","tag-great-winnipeg-concert-moments","tag-ron-wiseman-and-bob-wiseman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}