{"id":501,"date":"2009-10-08T18:35:23","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T23:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/?p=501"},"modified":"2009-10-08T18:35:23","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T23:35:23","slug":"some-gigs-108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/?p=501","title":{"rendered":"some gigs 10\/8"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight, October 8, I’ll play on the party bus for the art walk<\/a> in downtown LA. That’s at 8pm.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow I’ll do happy hour at Cinema Bar<\/a>, basically 7-8:30. With luck I’ll have a cool drummer girl playing along on tin can and wooden spoons. <\/p>\n

I have also picked up a regular gig at the hospital. It’s a profound experience. Here’s an email I got from an organizer:<\/p>\n

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The kids are mainly non-responsive. They have been born with birth defects or have been in a horrific accident. A lot of the kids are in bed in a fetal position, but a lot are able to sit in wheelchairs. Studies have shown that music touches these children in a way that we cannot monitor or we hope that is does. When you see the smiles on their faces you will know that you are reaching them. It is a hard place at first, but once you see what you are providing them, you will love it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tonight, October 8, I’ll play on the party bus for the art walk in downtown LA. That’s at 8pm. Tomorrow I’ll do happy hour at Cinema Bar, basically 7-8:30. With luck I’ll have a cool drummer girl playing along on tin can and wooden spoons. I have also picked up a regular gig at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}