{"id":2874,"date":"2015-02-12T01:06:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T01:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=2874"},"modified":"2015-02-12T01:06:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T01:06:48","slug":"birth-of-the-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=2874","title":{"rendered":"Birth of the Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I was looking at a couple of Mardi Gras mix tapes that some folks had posted online, and this song popped up on one of them.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Keely Smith and Louis Prima doing <strong>Birth of the Blues<\/strong>.  Not a song that I would naturally identify as being related to Mardi Gras, but a great one to know about, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Her voice is spectacular.<\/p>\n<p>I love his trumpet playing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good one to <a href=\"https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=LWw4mCfdbmc&#038;feature=youtube_gdata_player\">remember<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Wednesday, y&#8217;all!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I was looking at a couple of Mardi Gras mix tapes that some folks had posted online, and this song popped up on one of them. It&#8217;s Keely Smith and Louis Prima doing Birth of the Blues. Not a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=2874\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2875,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions\/2875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}