{"id":1337,"date":"2011-01-28T15:23:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T20:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2011-01-28T15:23:09","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T20:23:09","slug":"quirky-or-coincidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/28\/quirky-or-coincidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Quirky or Coincidence?&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>&#8230;.Or downright weird??<\/em><\/strong>&#8230;.  <em>You decide&#8230;..<\/em> I have finally got around to shredding all those papers, invoices, mailing labels, etc., that you don&#8217;t really want to throw in your trash because, these days, you can&#8217;t even trust your trash when it comes to identity theft&#8230;.  I ran across an invoice from <strong>Mills Music<\/strong> in <strong>Bothell, WA<\/strong> where I purchased four sets of officially licensed <strong><em>Jimi Hendrix<\/em><\/strong> <em>strings<\/em>&#8230;..  This was in <strong>April<\/strong> of <strong>&#8217;09<\/strong>&#8230;..  The reason I was in <strong>Bothell<\/strong> in the first place was that I was in <strong><em>Seattle<\/em><\/strong> and shopping around for a cheap <strong>Fender Telecaster<\/strong> to use for slide playing&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>JH<\/strong> strings had just came out&#8230;.  They were cool as they were packed in various combinations of string configurations that <strong>Jimi<\/strong> used and they had <em>different album covers<\/em> for the <em>different sets<\/em>, and, they were on <strong>SALE<\/strong> &#8211; <em>Two for one<\/em>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Okay, Okay,<\/em><\/strong> here&#8217;s the deal &#8211; The total amount for the strings, which were different prices based on which set you purchased, plus the tax amounted to <strong>$27.27<\/strong>&#8230;..  <strong><em>Jimi Hendrix<\/em><\/strong> was <strong>27 years old<\/strong> when he died&#8230;.  <strong><em>Quirky, Weird, Coincidence, or does MR just have too much time on his hands?<\/em><\/strong>&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/hendrix_strings_fr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/hendrix_strings_fr.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"hendrix_strings_fr\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1339\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/hendrix_strings_fr.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/hendrix_strings_fr-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/hendrix_strings_bk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/hendrix_strings_bk.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"hendrix_strings_bk\" width=\"500\" height=\"243\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1340\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/hendrix_strings_bk.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/hendrix_strings_bk-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.Or downright weird??&#8230;. You decide&#8230;.. I have finally got around to shredding all those papers, invoices, mailing labels, etc., that you don&#8217;t really want to throw in your trash because, these days, you can&#8217;t even trust your trash when it comes to identity theft&#8230;. I ran across an invoice from Mills Music in Bothell, WA [&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\/1337"}],"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=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}