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I am cleaning my hard drive of all the flotsam and jetsam that has collected over the years, and I ran across this photoshopped image I made in honor of both Seattle Mariners star outfielder Ichiro and our own Oregon Symphony star principal clarinetist, Yoshi Nakao.\u00c2\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[136,42,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chamber-music","category-fun","category-the-orchestra-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-Gn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6094,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/31\/video-killed-the-classical-star\/","url_meta":{"origin":2627,"position":0},"title":"video killed the classical star?","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 31, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 My new toy, a little mini HD handheld digital video recorder, arrived in the mail today. 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