{"id":192,"date":"2003-03-13T11:39:44","date_gmt":"2003-03-13T11:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=192"},"modified":"2003-03-13T11:39:44","modified_gmt":"2003-03-13T11:39:44","slug":"some-of-the-peaks-in-my-week-the-fray-cafe-and-the-walkingbirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/192","title":{"rendered":"Some of the peaks in my week: the Fray Cafe and the Walkingbirds."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were so many highlights from my trip to Texas, it&#8217;s hard to know where to start.  I&#8217;m going to be throwing them up here in fits and bursts for the rest of the week.  The perk I&#8217;d like to mention this morning: meeting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottandrew.com\/\">Scott Andrew LaPera<\/a>, who records this <i>amazing<\/i> music as The Walkingbirds.  Scott Andrew played at the <a href=\"http:\/\/fray.org\/cafe3\/\">Fray Cafe<\/a> this year, at which I was the last speaker, telling a story about falling out of a pickup truck in high school &#150; and although I don&#8217;t think Derek realized it, this was my first experience getting on stage at a Fray event.  I was <i>petrified,<\/i> and even more so when I found out I was the last speaker of the night.  I was also flattered as all get out, since Derek trusted me to round out the set, but I was still jittery.  I hope nobody noticed.  Anyway, after I got off the stage, Scott Andrew came up to me right afterwards to say hi, and I was still so shaken about having just finally joined the real-time Fray I didn&#8217;t even know what to say.  Jeez.  Luckily I got to talk to him later, and just as suspected he&#8217;s really cool.  I&#8217;m hoping I&#8217;ll be able to have something from him grace our pages sometime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were so many highlights from my trip to Texas, it&#8217;s hard to know where to start. I&#8217;m going to be throwing them up here in fits and bursts for the rest of the week. The perk I&#8217;d like to mention this morning: meeting Scott Andrew LaPera, who records this amazing music as The Walkingbirds. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voice-tip-of-the-quill"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-36","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}