{"id":2609,"date":"2011-05-08T23:30:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T06:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=2609"},"modified":"2011-05-08T23:31:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T06:31:54","slug":"compatible-quotes-jazz-kids-in-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/05\/compatible-quotes-jazz-kids-in-new-orleans\/","title":{"rendered":"Compatible Quotes: Jazz Kids In New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>New Orleans is the only place I know of where you ask a little kid what he wants to be and instead of saying &#8220;I want to be a policeman,&#8221; or &#8220;I want to be a fireman,&#8221; he says, I want to be a musician.&#8221;<\/em>&#151;Alan Jaffe<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>I was just like the rest of the kids, wanted to now all about that new music called jazz. I was a second-line kid. That meant I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d follow the big bands down the street and, man, what a thrill when Tio or George Baquet would let me carry their cases while they played!<\/em>&#151;Albert Nicholas<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don&#8217;t think my career would have taken off. I wouldn&#8217;t have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid.<\/em>&#151;Pete Fountain<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans is the only place I know of where you ask a little kid what he wants to be and instead of saying &#8220;I want to be a policeman,&#8221; or &#8220;I want to be a fireman,&#8221; he says, I want to be a musician.&#8221;&#151;Alan Jaffe I was just like the rest of the kids, [&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-2609","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\/2609","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=2609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}