{"id":3780,"date":"2015-05-16T15:59:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T20:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=3780"},"modified":"2015-05-16T15:59:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T20:59:36","slug":"didnt-he-play-the-banjo-or-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/16\/didnt-he-play-the-banjo-or-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Didn&#8217;t he play the banjo or something?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, we lost B. B. King on Thursday night. Died in his sleep, age 89, taking a huge chunk of musical talent to the other side. Bet there is a epic jam session in heaven about now. Learned a lot of random facts about him from obits, I had no idea he was a certified pilot, flying himself to a lot of gigs until the mid &#8217;90s. He was disappointed he didn&#8217;t serve in WWII; he\u00c2\u00a0was saved from full national service because he worked as a cotton picker in Mississippi at a time when plantation owners cut a deal with draft officials to keep their employees in the fields (He *was* inducted, but discharged after basic training). I knew he had a lot of kids, but they&#8217;re reporting something like 15 kids and 50 grandkids. Unfortunately, there&#8217;s gonna be a whole lot of lawyers scrambling this week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I did find an invitation for everyone to see B. B. at his new permanent venue, he even left us directions&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bb_king.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3781\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bb_king-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"bb_king\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bb_king-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bb_king.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, we lost B. B. King on Thursday night. Died in his sleep, age 89, taking a huge chunk of musical talent to the other side. Bet there is a epic jam session in heaven about now. Learned a lot of random facts about him from obits, I had no idea he was a certified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,30,1,36,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780"}],"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\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3782,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions\/3782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}