{"id":5415,"date":"2009-08-29T00:25:02","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T04:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=5415"},"modified":"2009-08-29T00:25:02","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T04:25:02","slug":"when-fretting-is-a-delight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/when-fretting-is-a-delight\/","title":{"rendered":"When fretting is a delight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wandered into a music shop this afternoon to pick up some guitar strings and heard a Martin OM-21 Special call my name. After trying it for some time I decided it needed a new home, so I bought it; the shop did give me a couple of sets of free strings though.<\/p>\n<p>It is a fingerpicker\u2019s delight: widely spaced strings, small body and clear, open, harp-like, balanced tone. With its Indian rosewood, Sitka Spruce and ebony, it even smells wonderful \u2013 that could just be to me, though.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.12fret.com\/new\/Martin_OM-21_Special.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"600\" height=\"627\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is what it sounds like.<\/p>\n<p><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/ui\/3523697345-audio-player.swf?audioUrl=http:\/\/sthildaschurch.ca\/Stuff\/Martin OM-21 Special.mp3\" height=\"27\" width=\"320\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wandered into a music shop this afternoon to pick up some guitar strings and heard a Martin OM-21 Special call my name. After trying it for some time I decided it needed a new home, so I bought it; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/when-fretting-is-a-delight\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[2206],"class_list":["post-5415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}