{"id":86,"date":"2008-05-24T15:10:12","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T20:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/?p=86"},"modified":"2008-05-24T15:10:12","modified_gmt":"2008-05-24T20:10:12","slug":"what-did-they-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"what did they look like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What did the original players of these songs look like?  Here&#8217;s a sample from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0807828017\">C.F. Martin &#038; His Guitars, 1796-1873<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/19thcenturyamericanguitarist.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"19th century American guitarist\" width=\"365\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-87\" style=\"float: left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Carte-de-visite, ca. 1860.  This striking photograph shows the kind of professional performer to whom Martin often sold instruments.  Inside his traveling trunk, against which leans his guitar, are a violin and sheet music.  His traveling clothes hang behind him.<\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear:left\" \/>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What did the original players of these songs look like? Here&#8217;s a sample from C.F. Martin &#038; His Guitars, 1796-1873: Carte-de-visite, ca. 1860. This striking photograph shows the kind of professional performer to whom Martin often sold instruments. Inside his traveling trunk, against which leans his guitar, are a violin and sheet music. His traveling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","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=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}