{"id":1681,"date":"2011-07-24T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T18:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2011-07-24T14:02:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T18:02:04","slug":"with-a-song-title-like-john-lee-hooker-for-president-im-thinking-i-may-like-the-new-ry-cooder-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1681","title":{"rendered":"With a song title like &#8220;John Lee Hooker For President&#8221;, I&#8217;m thinking I may like the new Ry Cooder album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My take on Ry Cooder has always been that he&#8217;s an amazing guitarist who does not want to be a guitar hero and he does everything possible to distract from his considerable instrumental prowess. \u00a0I pretty much lost patience with this routine when Cooder hit the big time with the Buena Vista Social Club. \u00a0I had high hopes for his recently completed California Trilogy, but the music and lyrics just didn&#8217;t do it for me. \u00a0This next record, and the rootsy mandolin on the first track, make me think I should, once again, approach this master&#8217;s work with an open mind.<\/p>\n<p>\n<object width=\"640\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LxaY_mxYflg?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LxaY_mxYflg?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p>Record is released on August 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My take on Ry Cooder has always been that he&#8217;s an amazing guitarist who does not want to be a guitar hero and he does everything possible to distract from his considerable instrumental prowess. \u00a0I pretty much lost patience with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1681\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,401],"tags":[63,1310,1309],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1684,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}