{"id":1038,"date":"2009-04-01T17:31:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T17:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/01\/steve-martin-writer-banjo-picker-from-way-back\/"},"modified":"2010-09-24T16:15:10","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T16:15:10","slug":"steve-martin-writer-banjo-picker-from-way-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/01\/steve-martin-writer-banjo-picker-from-way-back\/","title":{"rendered":"steve martin.  writer.  banjo picker.  from way back."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I said something about the EU and someone actually asked, &#8220;What&#8217;s the EU?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><em>Yeah&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The woman was from California and that made me feel a little better.  But not much.  <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something seriously wrong with some<em>thing<\/em>, some<em>where<\/em> when you&#8217;re accused (and I was) of intellectual snobbery just because you can&#8217;t disguise the dumbfound when someone asks you a question like that.  Shocking. <\/p>\n<p>But not as shocking &#8211; okay, so maybe it <em>is<\/em> &#8211; as people not knowing that Steve Martin is a ridiculously talented writer and musician.  I adore the man.  I get &#8216;updates&#8217; on a total of three authors.  Steve Martin is one of them. I&#8217;m reading &#8220;Born Standing Up&#8221; in between headaches caused by 2666 and plan on putting Roxanne on repeat over the weekend.  Because there&#8217;s no better cure for the things that ail us.  <\/p>\n<p>That is all. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I said something about the EU and someone actually asked, &#8220;What&#8217;s the EU?&#8221; Yeah&#8230; The woman was from California and that made me feel a little better. But not much. There&#8217;s something seriously wrong with something, somewhere when you&#8217;re accused (and I was) of intellectual snobbery just because you can&#8217;t disguise the dumbfound when<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum","tag-loves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3104,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/3104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}