{"id":1276,"date":"2008-10-15T10:12:05","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T17:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2013-02-07T18:06:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T02:06:38","slug":"much-better-than-sarah-palin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/15\/much-better-than-sarah-palin\/","title":{"rendered":"much better than sarah palin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1951450&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/1951450?pg=embed&amp;sec=1951450\">Mark Growden plays the handlebars<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/user652397?pg=embed&amp;sec=1951450\">Doctor Popular<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/vimeo.com?pg=embed&amp;sec=1951450\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Growden plays the handlebars from Doctor Popular on Vimeo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[50,115,13],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-music","category-video","tag-flute"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-kA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":451,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/01\/hmmm\/","url_meta":{"origin":1276,"position":0},"title":"super flute","author":"Charles Noble","date":"October 1, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"His name is Greg Patillo - he's a classically trained flutist from Seattle who studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and who developed some, shall we say, novel playing techniques while busking in the subways of New York City. 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