{"id":241,"date":"2009-08-23T17:30:47","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T21:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/2009\/08\/les_pauls_tongue\/"},"modified":"2019-09-13T13:32:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T17:32:41","slug":"les_pauls_tongue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2009\/08\/les_pauls_tongue.html","title":{"rendered":"Les Paul&#8217;s tongue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2004, photog Gene Martin asked the guitarist\/inventor who&#8217;d just received the Jazz Journalists Association&#8217;s &#8220;A Team&#8221; award for activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz, to pose for a portrait. . .<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 262px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/Les%20Paul%27s%20tongue.jpg\" alt=\"Les Paul's tongue.jpg\" width=\"252\" height=\"252\" \/><p 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