{"id":909,"date":"2005-10-28T10:42:20","date_gmt":"2005-10-28T14:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/another_thursda"},"modified":"2005-10-28T10:42:20","modified_gmt":"2005-10-28T14:42:20","slug":"another_thursda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=909","title":{"rendered":"Another Thursday night in Floyd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=518,height=389,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/chickenwinggravy.jpg\"><\/a><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=518,height=389,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/chickenwinggravy_1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"470\" height=\"352\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/ripples\/images\/chickenwinggravy_1.jpg\" title=\"Chickenwinggravy_1\" alt=\"Chickenwinggravy_1\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a>Life just doesn&#8217;t get much better than this. Good music in an intimate venue that provides great food and genuine hospitality.<\/p>\n<p>Gretchen and I and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueridgemuse.com\/\">Doug Thompson<\/a> are discussing the fate of the world over dinner at Oddfellas Cantina while Bill Smith and Rich Rittenhouse play original and classic blues tunes.<\/p>\n<p>Bill and Rich, also known as <a href=\"http:\/\/chickenwingsandgravy.com\/\">Chicken Wings and Gravy<\/a>, play the blues in a way you will not soon forget. Their understated competence showed these two to be masters of their art.<\/p>\n<p>I have seen too many blues groups which relied on histrionics and flashy vocals to capture an audience&#8217;s attention, so it was a complete surprise to encounter the arresting performance that these two put on.<\/p>\n<p>They didn&#8217;t introduce themselves, they just started playing quietly and purposefully, but you knew immediatly that these guys were something out of the ordinary because you couldn&#8217;t take your attention off them. They didn&#8217;t speak much at all, they just let their music do the talking for them.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about them on <a href=\"http:\/\/chickenwingsandgravy.com\">chickenwings and gravy.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life just doesn&#8217;t get much better than this. Good music in an intimate venue that provides great food and genuine hospitality. Gretchen and I and Doug Thompson are discussing the fate of the world over dinner at Oddfellas Cantina while &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=909\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1820,1817],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-eF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}