{"id":92,"date":"2018-07-07T13:37:10","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T20:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eha2018\/log\/?p=92"},"modified":"2018-07-07T14:16:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T21:16:07","slug":"musical-instruments-of-appalachia-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eha2018\/log\/musical-instruments-of-appalachia-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Instruments of Appalachia, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

I forget which day this happened, but at a rest stop in North Carolina, there were signs for the men’s room and the women’s room; and in the middle was a room titled Mechanical Room. You can say what you like about NC gender troglodytion, but they are looking to the future.\u00a0 When I first visited the South black people couldn’t use the same bathrooms as white.\u00a0 Going with a white woman would get you killed.\u00a0 Now I see mixed race couples all around Wilmington.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

We hopped into the car and sped off to Asheville, where we had a date for lunch with two Opcode-era personalities, Gerry and Geary.\u00a0 It was nice hanging out with them and talking about life.\u00a0 Afterwards we walked around town and saw the Art Nouveau \/ Art Deco architecture, then headed off to our hotel.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t really need dinner that night.<\/p>\n

Breakfast Tuesday was at OWL Bakery, which was all tasty but pricey.\u00a0 They did squeeze oranges, they had rye pound cake, and they meticulously measured coffee doses.\u00a0 They also made good hot chocolate.\u00a0 Dreamboat barista.<\/p>\n

We drove back into town and took a tour of the Moog factory, which was fun.\u00a0 They build the old-fashioned analog gear just like they always did, with hand-soldering onto PC boards.\u00a0 They also make a bunch of less expensive modern gear, with surface-mount components.\u00a0 The Black Mountain College museum was closed, unfortunately.\u00a0 Next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I forget which day this happened, but at a rest stop in North Carolina, there were signs for the men’s room and the women’s room; and in the middle was a room titled Mechanical Room. You can say what you like about NC gender troglodytion, but they are looking to the future.\u00a0 When I first … Continue reading Musical Instruments of Appalachia, Part 1<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eha2018\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eha2018\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eha2018\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eha2018\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eha2018\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eha2018\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eha2018\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eha2018\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eha2018\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eha2018\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}