{"id":6024,"date":"2014-09-06T13:06:11","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=6024"},"modified":"2014-09-06T13:06:11","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:06:11","slug":"other-matters-finger-pickin-good-sousa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2014\/09\/other-matters-finger-pickin-good-sousa\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Matters: Finger-Pickin&#8217; Good Sousa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;ywZdHeg0j94153bDEynmwkgewClS3h7v&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/stripessousa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/stripessousa.jpg\" alt=\"stripessousa\" width=\"200\" height=\"158\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6025\" \/><\/a>Bobby Shew sent a link to a performance by a guitarist named Doug Smith. After listening to Smith\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s introductory story about his dad, no former Marine could be expected to ignore the video. Anyone who can finger-pick Sousa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s famous piccolo part in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Stars and Stripes Forever\u00e2\u20ac\u009d while also playing the harmony and melody must be taken seriously. This is an opportunity to see and hear a man who enjoys his work.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0-NY3GiYAFc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I must confess to having known nothing about Doug Smith before Mr. Shew alerted me to him. I learned plenty from his impressive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dougsmithguitar.com\"target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;ywZdHeg0j94153bDEynmwkgewClS3h7v&#8221;] Bobby Shew sent a link to a performance by a guitarist named Doug Smith. After listening to Smith\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s introductory story about his dad, no former Marine could be expected to ignore the video. Anyone who can finger-pick Sousa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s famous piccolo part in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Stars and Stripes Forever\u00e2\u20ac\u009d while also playing the harmony and melody [&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-6024","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\/6024","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=6024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}