{"id":4563,"date":"2018-02-27T04:15:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T04:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=4563"},"modified":"2018-02-27T04:15:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T04:15:35","slug":"how-i-won-the-talent-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=4563","title":{"rendered":"How I won The Talent Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Sometimes I have been told by people that so and so is imitating you or ripping you off but truth is I started it. I crossed the line worse than anyone you know.\u00a0I have no idea what ever happened to her, but at a United Synagogue Youth conclave between kids from Winnipeg and Minneapolis, in the 70s, I impressed this one particular girl, at a talent show where I destroyed all the wannabes by playing guitar and singing David Bromberg&#8217;s &#8220;You Got To Suffer (if you want to sing the blues). Afterward, I sent her a bunch of songs written by Bromberg and other artists who I thought obscure, like George Harrison, and claimed these were songs I wrote for her. I was 13. Wish I could hear that cassette today.<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I have been told by people that so and so is imitating you or ripping you off but truth is I started it. I crossed the line worse than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=4563\" 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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","post-4563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563","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=4563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}