{"id":1318,"date":"2011-01-16T20:30:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T01:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2011-01-16T20:30:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T01:30:10","slug":"fooling-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/16\/fooling-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"Fooling Myself?&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just ran across the <em>August 30, 2000<\/em> copy of the <strong>&#8220;Oklahoma Gazette&#8221;<\/strong> which had a large article on <em>Norman (OK), 1970<\/em> with some photos&#8230;..  One of them was the <strong><em>Jimi Hendrix<\/em><\/strong> poster for his <em>May 8<\/em> concerts&#8230;..  It was one of his last concerts before his death in September of &#8217;70&#8230;&#8230;  <em>I didn&#8217;t make it to either of them<\/em>, which, to me, is <em>the concert<\/em> that I regret missing more than any I can now think of, and I have always used the excuse that I didn&#8217;t hear about it until it was already over&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>BUT<\/em><\/strong>, I have been doing a lot of brain digging and soul searching here lately, and, I have to admit at that time I wasn&#8217;t a big <strong>Hendrix<\/strong> fan&#8230;..  That hurts just saying that&#8230;&#8230;  I was into <strong>&#8220;Beatles&#8221;<\/strong> (they were in the process of breaking up) and <strong>&#8220;Stones&#8221;<\/strong> (<em>Let It Bleed<\/em> was going strong), and, in <em>Oklahoma<\/em>, <strong>Hendrix, Zappa, Alice Cooper<\/strong>, and groups in the <em>&#8220;FAR OUT&#8221;<\/em> zone didn&#8217;t get much airplay&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>So-o-o, I guess I&#8217;m admitting I&#8217;ve been <strong><em>fooling myself<\/em><\/strong> all these years, and just passed on seeing <strong>Jimi<\/strong>, thinking ah-h-h, if he&#8217;s any good he&#8217;ll be back sometime and I&#8217;ll catch his act then&#8230;..  It just goes to show you that you never know&#8230;&#8230;  <strong>A deeply missed opportunity indeed<\/strong>&#8230;.  &#8221; <strong><em>&#8216;Cuse Me While I Kiss The Sky<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/jimi_hendrix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1320\" title=\"jimi_hendrix\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/jimi_hendrix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/jimi_hendrix.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/jimi_hendrix-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just ran across the August 30, 2000 copy of the &#8220;Oklahoma Gazette&#8221; which had a large article on Norman (OK), 1970 with some photos&#8230;.. One of them was the Jimi Hendrix poster for his May 8 concerts&#8230;.. It was one of his last concerts before his death in September of &#8217;70&#8230;&#8230; I didn&#8217;t make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1322,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}