{"id":11060,"date":"2019-04-21T17:30:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T00:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=11060"},"modified":"2019-04-22T10:51:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T17:51:21","slug":"a-perfect-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2019\/04\/a-perfect-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"A Perfect Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11061\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1.jpg 852w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a>We spent much of this Easter Sunday driving slowly through hills covered with hundreds of acres of apple and cherry trees gloriously abloom. Spring is here in full flower, with enchanting vistas that include glimpses of Mount Adams and Mount Rainier. This post comes late in the holiday, but the <em>Rifftides<\/em> staff hopes that your Easter has been equally inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Easter Parade\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is hardly a jazz standard, but Irving Berlin gave it a wonderful melody and a harmonic structure that encourages playing to match the beauty of the season. The song made a splendid vehicle for cornetist Ruby Braff and pianist Ellis Larkins in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Calling-Berlin-Braff-Ellis-Larkins\/dp\/B01M4KPRIT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the first volume<\/a> of their \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Calling Berlin\u00e2\u20ac\u009d series.<\/p>\n<div align=\"&quot;center\">\n<p>&#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0&#8221;\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uiSUslb7Xo0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Happy Easter 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent much of this Easter Sunday driving slowly through hills covered with hundreds of acres of apple and cherry trees gloriously abloom. Spring is here in full flower, with enchanting vistas that include glimpses of Mount Adams and Mount Rainier. This post comes late in the holiday, but the Rifftides staff hopes that your [&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-11060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060","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=11060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}