{"id":8149,"date":"2024-04-26T18:22:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T18:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=8149"},"modified":"2024-05-02T03:53:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T03:53:09","slug":"affirmation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=8149","title":{"rendered":"affirmation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I went down a George Benson rabbit hole. Breezin&#8217; was a significant part of my teen life. Now as we live in the YouTube world, where one can be like Picard in Star Trek saying &#8220;computer Earl Grey&#8221; I love that I can ask for anything and often get it, &#8220;YouTube, Benson, Affirmation&#8221; poof more than one version of him doing it live, more than one person even demonstrating how to do it on piano. I am so happy to be living in these times. And the sheet music says Jos\u00e9 Feliciano. Who knew? Jos\u00e9 wrote Affirmation. I want to try it out at the open stage along with my horribly inept Oscar Peterson and Erroll Garner arpeggios. Nothing improves your relationship to a song as much as failing before a live crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went down a George Benson rabbit hole. Breezin&#8217; was a significant part of my teen life. Now as we live in the YouTube world, where one can be like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=8149\" 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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","post-8149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8149","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=8149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}