{"id":1062,"date":"2007-09-05T01:04:05","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T08:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2007-09-05T01:04:05","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T08:04:05","slug":"correspondence_about_that_shed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2007\/09\/correspondence_about_that_shed\/","title":{"rendered":"Correspondence: About That Shed Jump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A message from Sue Mingus, widow of Charles:<br \/>\nI believe it was in <em>Rifftides<\/em> that someone recently quoted one of Charles Mingus&#8217;s sons talking about his father telling him to jump off a shed and then not catching him. That was an old joke I heard about 50 years ago in Paris&#8211; not very funny&#8211; about a father teaching his son, who is up in a tree, a cynical message about not trusting anyone. I think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/archives\/2007\/08\/correspondence_25.html\"target=\"_blank\">the story<\/a> got twisted in someone&#8217;s memory from tree to shed and fact to fairy tale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A message from Sue Mingus, widow of Charles: I believe it was in Rifftides that someone recently quoted one of Charles Mingus&#8217;s sons talking about his father telling him to jump off a shed and then not catching him. That was an old joke I heard about 50 years ago in Paris&#8211; not very funny&#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}