{"id":546,"date":"2009-08-11T10:26:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T10:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=546"},"modified":"2009-08-11T10:30:29","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T10:30:29","slug":"blossom-dearie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/blossom-dearie\/","title":{"rendered":"Blossom Dearie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has nothing to do with microlights or G-MYRO but everything to do with the passage of time and the passing of youth. I just heard today that Blossom Dearie, the American jazz singer, passed away in February.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the late 60s when I was very young, footloose and fancy free a few of us used to go to Ronnie Scott&#8217;s Jazz Club in Soho, London and we heard Blossom Dearie sing live there many times. How sad to know that she&#8217;s gone. Every time someone who you knew and loved in your youth passes away they take a little bit of your life with them that can never be replaced.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a Youtube link to Blossom singing live at Ronnie Scott&#8217;s at about the same time as I used to go there. She sounds exactly as I remember her. What a lovely lady with a smile in her voice. <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SPzt3A4Se_U&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SPzt3A4Se_U&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has nothing to do with microlights or G-MYRO but everything to do with the passage of time and the passing of youth. I just heard today that Blossom Dearie, the American jazz singer, passed away in February. Back in the late 60s when I was very young, footloose and fancy free a few of &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/blossom-dearie\/\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}