{"id":177,"date":"2005-09-22T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-22T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=177"},"modified":"2005-09-22T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-22T08:05:00","slug":"towering_achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2005\/09\/towering_achievement\/","title":{"rendered":"Towering Achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just back from Monterey by way of Seattle, I am ready to crash for\u00e2\u20ac\u201doh, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know, two or three days\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut first, I  must second what <em><strong>DevraDoWrite <\/strong><\/em>posted about the Tower Records staff who made our book signings an agreeable experience at the Monterey Jazz Festival.  Here&#8217;s a little of what Devra wrote about the treatment she and her husband John Levy received for their signing of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=rifftidougram-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=tg\/detail\/-\/0931761743\/qid=1127361562\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1?v=glance%26s=books\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Men, Women and Girl Singers<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know these great folks before a week or two ago, and we never asked for any special treatment while exchanging a few emails and quick calls. I was also surprised to learn that this team that worked together like a well-oiled machine is actually a bunch of colleagues from several different stores. I kept asking who was in charge, so I could give thanks and heap praise on all. Seems they were all in charge, so let me publicly thank the ones I know by name, and encourage you to shop at Tower&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?cat=4\"target=\"_blank\">Go here<\/a> to learn those names and to see a photograph of Leroid and Mike with the amazing nonagenarian Mr. Levy.<br \/>\nI gotta get me some Zs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just back from Monterey by way of Seattle, I am ready to crash for\u00e2\u20ac\u201doh, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know, two or three days\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut first, I must second what DevraDoWrite posted about the Tower Records staff who made our book signings an agreeable experience at the Monterey Jazz Festival. Here&#8217;s a little of what Devra wrote about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-177","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\/177","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=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}