{"id":1423,"date":"2003-07-13T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-13T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/13\/kickshaw-grumbles\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T11:20:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T19:20:42","slug":"kickshaw-grumbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/13\/kickshaw-grumbles\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickshaw grumbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.djwudi.com\/longletter\/archives\/2002\/07\/22\/sunburnt_but_it_was_worth_it.php\" title=\"Sunburnt, but it was worth it\">Last year at the Bite of Seattle<\/a>, I discovered an incredible local acapella group called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickshaw.net\/\" title=\"Kickshaw\">Kickshaw<\/a> that blew me away when I walked up in time to hear a flawless acapella performance of one of my all-time favorite songs, &#8220;Papa Was a Rolling Stone&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>After their version of &#8220;Dance to the Music&#8221; came up in iTunes today, I hit their website on a whim and discovered that they&#8217;re going to be performing at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biteofseattle.com\/home\/\" title=\"Bite of Seattle\">Bite of Seattle<\/a> food festival next weekend. Got all excited, started planning to go to see them again &#8212; and then realized that they&#8217;re playing at 6pm on Friday. I&#8217;ll be at work. Grrr. Not thrilled with whoever scheduled that. Didn&#8217;t they know that they should have consulted with me first?<\/p>\n<p>Uh, yeah. Right. Anyway.<\/p>\n<p>On the bright side, come early August, they&#8217;ll be performing at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmondswa.com\/Events\/Taste\/\" title=\"Edmonds, WA - Taste of Edmonds\">Taste of Edmonds<\/a> food festival, which is just about half an hour by car from here. Prairie&#8217;s expressed interest in going, so hopefully we&#8217;ll be able to head out that way and catch them there. Would be <em>very<\/em> cool to get to see them again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year at the Bite of Seattle, I discovered an incredible local acapella group called Kickshaw that blew me away when I walked up in time to hear a flawless acapella performance of one of my all-time favorite songs, &#8216;Papa Was a Rolling Stone&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2035,2043],"tags":[2212,80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}