{"id":1292,"date":"2008-03-31T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2008-03-31T01:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T08:04:00","slug":"compatible_quotes_benny_carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2008\/03\/compatible_quotes_benny_carter\/","title":{"rendered":"Compatible Quotes: Benny Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px\" height=\"123\" alt=\"Carter.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/Carter.jpg\" width=\"96\" \/><\/span>In all honesty, I think I just played what I felt was right for me. And I think I would have done the same thing, even if I&#8217;d been born later, when Charlie Parker was influencing everybody. The truth is, I never gave it much thought. I just played what I had to play.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I&#8217;ve got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8211;Benny Carter, 1907-2003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In all honesty, I think I just played what I felt was right for me. And I think I would have done the same thing, even if I&#8217;d been born later, when Charlie Parker was influencing everybody. The truth is, I never gave it much thought. I just played what I had to play. At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-1292","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\/1292","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=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}