{"id":13,"date":"2010-07-03T20:40:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T20:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidgunter.com\/words\/?p=13"},"modified":"2015-02-27T21:18:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T04:18:00","slug":"minnie-the-moocher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidgunter.com\/es-mx\/2010\/07\/03\/minnie-the-moocher\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnie the Moocher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Official Site of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbvd.com\/theatre_home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Big Bad Voodoo Daddy<\/a> just finished a cover of the classic &#8220;Minnie the Moocher&#8221; and suddenly I am transported back to the 13 year-old version of myself. That summer I was an usher at an outdoor theatre, Kansas City&#8217;s <em>Starlight<\/em>. Cab Calloway came through town with a musical review and I saw him perform this same song in front of a huge orchestra. I hadn&#8217;t been into music before then and it would be another year before John Lennon was shot and I&#8217;d <em>discover<\/em> The Beatles, then Billy Joel, and then the rest of the 80s groups. 20Swing left a huge impression on me and still gets my blood pumping more than any 80s power ballad ever will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Bad Voodoo Daddy just finished a cover of the classic &#8220;Minnie the Moocher&#8221; and suddenly I am transported back to the 13 year-old version of myself. That summer I was an usher at&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidgunter.com\/es-mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidgunter.com\/es-mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidgunter.com\/es-mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidgunter.com\/es-mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidgunter.com\/es-mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidgunter.com\/es-mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidgunter.com\/es-mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidgunter.com\/es-mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidgunter.com\/es-mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidgunter.com\/es-mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidgunter.com\/es-mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}