{"id":14925,"date":"2014-07-02T20:13:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T01:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=14925"},"modified":"2014-07-02T20:13:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T01:13:21","slug":"my-blue-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=14925","title":{"rendered":"My blue hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walking along Commercial Street this morning in East Vancouver, on my rounds to shop for various necessaries, I found myself drawn to a little guitar shop.  Walking in, I got a sudden urge to buy a ukelele.<\/p>\n<p>Since I don&#8217;t play the ukelele, it didn&#8217;t seem like a good idea to get a fancy one.  It turns out that there is a little beginner model for around $40 that comes in all sorts of vibrant colors.  The store owner told me that his girlfriend, who is a professional musician, uses the pink one in her stage performances.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow the phrase &#8220;blue hawaii&#8221; rang in my head, and I realized I just had to get the blue one.  Which I did.<\/p>\n<p>You can see my shiny new toy in the photo below, in the arms of its proud owner.  My blue ukelele has a delightful sound, and I&#8217;m having tremendous fun learning all the chords I can make with just those four G,C,E and A strings.<\/p>\n<p>And unlike my computer, it will never need batteries!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/uke.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking along Commercial Street this morning in East Vancouver, on my rounds to shop for various necessaries, I found myself drawn to a little guitar shop. Walking in, I got a sudden urge to buy a ukelele. Since I don&#8217;t play the ukelele, it didn&#8217;t seem like a good idea to get a fancy one. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=14925\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My blue hawaii&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14925"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14928,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14925\/revisions\/14928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}