{"id":1518,"date":"2008-11-06T10:37:24","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T18:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2008-11-06T10:37:24","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T18:37:24","slug":"the_projo_on_dave_mckenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2008\/11\/the_projo_on_dave_mckenna\/","title":{"rendered":"The ProJo on Dave McKenna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On election day, the <em>Providence Journal<\/em> ran two editorials concerning matters important to Rhode Islanders. One was about the governor&#8217;s suggestion that it&#8217;s time to end the&nbsp; state&nbsp;income tax (a questionable idea, the paper said). The other was on the death of pianist Dave McKenna, one of the state&#8217;s cultural heroes. To read the Mckenna editorial, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projo.com\/opinion\/editorials\/content\/ED_mckenna4_11-04-08_9EC0CGG_v11.3e29911.html\" target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>. Thanks to <em>Rifftides<\/em> reader Steve Caminis for calling it to our attention. <\/p>\n<p>For the October 18 announcement of McKenna&#8217;s death, video of him playing and reader comments, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2008\/10\/dave_mckenna_rip.html\" target=\"_blank\">this <em>Rifftides<\/em> archive page<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On election day, the Providence Journal ran two editorials concerning matters important to Rhode Islanders. One was about the governor&#8217;s suggestion that it&#8217;s time to end the&nbsp; state&nbsp;income tax (a questionable idea, the paper said). The other was on the death of pianist Dave McKenna, one of the state&#8217;s cultural heroes. To read the Mckenna [&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-1518","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\/1518","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=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}