{"id":98,"date":"2018-07-07T14:19:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T21:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eha2018\/log\/?p=98"},"modified":"2018-07-07T14:19:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T21:19:48","slug":"musical-instruments-of-appalachia-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eha2018\/log\/musical-instruments-of-appalachia-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Instruments of Appalachia, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday morning we drove off to Johnson City, Tennessee, to see a friend of Ray\u2019s.\u00a0 He had been a programmer his entire career and was engaging in the fad of Swedish Death Cleaning.\u00a0 <em>I looked up Swedish Death Cleaning in Google.\u00a0 It appears to derive from one recent book.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t find any references to the topic reliably before about 2016.\u00a0 Google Date Search is not very clever.\u00a0 They will tell you something was dated in 2009 but the text you were looking for might be on that page with a 2017 date.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a hard problem.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We then drove up to the Blue Ridge Parkway, and went on a walk through a rhododendron forest.\u00a0 Untortunately it was not yet in bloom.\u00a0 We did see two completely different kinds of trillium than we have in California.\u00a0 It\u2019s a nice drive, there are no stop signs anywhere on it.\u00a0 We stopped just across the Virginia border to spend the night.\u00a0 We could have stayed in Mount Airy, NC, the inspiration for Mayberry, but instead we went to Hillsville, VA, which was much less expensive.\u00a0 With few dining options, we found a so-so Mexican place.<\/p>\n<p><em>I learned a new word there, from the ESPN big screen:\u00a0 Cornholing. \u00a0Actually, I already knew the word, but if you&#8217;re in Dixie, it means something completely different.\u00a0 It means beanbag-tossing.\u00a0 They fill the little bags with corn, see, and toss them into holes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Friday morning we backtracked a little, and went to the Blue Ridge Music Center on the Parkway.\u00a0 After another nice walk, we returned to the center where a circle of Appalachian musicians had gathered for the daily jam session (from noon to 4pm every day).\u00a0 Three mandolins, two banjos, guitar, violin, bass.\u00a0 They were awesome: \u00a0we listened for about 45 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday morning we drove off to Johnson City, Tennessee, to see a friend of Ray\u2019s.\u00a0 He had been a programmer his entire career and was engaging in the fad of Swedish Death Cleaning.\u00a0 I looked up Swedish Death Cleaning in Google.\u00a0 It appears to derive from one recent book.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t find any references to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eha2018\/log\/musical-instruments-of-appalachia-part-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Musical Instruments of Appalachia, part 2<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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\/98"}],"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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eha2018\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eha2018\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eha2018\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eha2018\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eha2018\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}