{"id":34,"date":"2013-01-10T21:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddbishopjazz.com\/index.php\/2013\/01\/10\/put-bird-on-i\/"},"modified":"2015-09-28T00:23:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T00:23:34","slug":"put-bird-on-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbishopjazz.com\/index.php\/2013\/01\/10\/put-bird-on-i\/","title":{"rendered":"PUT! A! BIRD! ON! IT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funny little tour story: Being from the Pacific Northwest, I&#8217;ve never felt we projected any kind of cultural identity to the rest of the world. Even within the region all we ever had to latch onto were Prefontaine, Henry Weinhard&#8217;s beer, Nirvana, and <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/5_Rs8c08hM8\">Drugstore Cowboy<\/a>. Usually when I&#8217;d go overseas if people knew where Oregon was, all they would know about it is that \u201cit&#8217;s rainy.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>So I was kind of happy to actually be able to live up to a stereotype when we were performing in Europe in November. A friend of one of our Brussels musicians, who was familiar with Portlandia, heard where I was from, and was getting a kick out of quoting this to me all evening:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"236\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0XM3vWJmpfo\" width=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nIt took me a little while to remember my own CD cover and merch:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-eV4P04R_RrY\/UNddZ2zSZqI\/AAAAAAAACT4\/u_reJUdoknU\/s1600\/t-shirt-squawk_edit.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"304\" src=\"http:\/\/toddbishopjazz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/t-shirt-squawk_edit.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funny little tour story: Being from the Pacific Northwest, I&#8217;ve never felt we projected any kind of cultural identity to the rest of the world. Even within the region all we ever had to latch onto were Prefontaine, Henry Weinhard&#8217;s beer, Nirvana, and Drugstore Cowboy. Usually when I&#8217;d go overseas if people knew where Oregon was, all they would know about it is that \u201cit&#8217;s rainy.\u201d So I was kind of happy to actually be able to live up to a stereotype when we were performing in Europe in November. A friend of one of our Brussels musicians, who was familiar with Portlandia, heard where<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/toddbishopjazz.com\/index.php\/2013\/01\/10\/put-bird-on-i\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-todd","4":"post-34","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-uncategorized","9":"post_tag-2012-europe-tour"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbishopjazz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbishopjazz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbishopjazz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbishopjazz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbishopjazz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toddbishopjazz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/toddbishopjazz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbishopjazz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbishopjazz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbishopjazz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbishopjazz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}