{"id":520,"date":"2007-10-11T14:24:34","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T18:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/10\/11\/hardly-strictly-anything\/"},"modified":"2007-10-11T17:03:22","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T21:03:22","slug":"hardly-strictly-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/10\/11\/hardly-strictly-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardly Strictly Anything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2337\/1519352131_6f59429f52.jpg\" height=\"257\" width=\"386\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Enjoyed some time at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strictlybluegrass.com\/\">Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival<\/a> in San Francisco&#8217;s Golden Gate Park this weekend.  The festival is entirely free to attend, and is a gift to the public from the pocket of one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2005\/09\/25\/PKGRAEQAS41.DTL&amp;type=music\">Warren Hellman<\/a>.  It was so good that I&#8217;m thinking of making a trip back for next year&#8217;s show.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment of this picture, we were all digging a bluegrass rendition of &#8220;That&#8217;s Just the Way It Is&#8221; with Bruce Hornsby and Ricky Skaggs.  The park was filled with pot smokin&#8217; porn watchin&#8217; hippies, singlespeed ridin&#8217; Pabst swillin&#8217; hipsters, and Redman dippin&#8217; truck drivin&#8217; rednecks.  And we all loved what we were hearing.   Then, just after this picture was taken, the <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/blacknell\/1493088270\/\">US Navy Blue Angels<\/a> soared overhead in formation.<\/p>\n<p>And the crowd cheered.<\/p>\n<p>This is my America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoyed some time at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco&#8217;s Golden Gate Park this weekend. The festival is entirely free to attend, and is a gift to the public from the pocket of one Warren Hellman. It was so good that I&#8217;m thinking of making a trip back for next year&#8217;s show. At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}