{"id":252,"date":"2011-08-12T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/?p=252"},"modified":"2011-12-07T22:07:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T22:07:19","slug":"folk-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Folk Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Mono-e1322662690809.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1007\" title=\"Mono\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Mono-e1322662690809.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s an Armenian folk tale that tells of a man who had a bass guitar with only one string, which he used to play for hours on end \u2014 always holding his finger in the same place.\u00a0 For seven years his wife put up with this note in the patient expectation that her husband would die of boredom.<\/p>\n<p>But since that never happened, one evening she\u00a0 remarked gently,\u00a0\u2018I\u2019ve noticed on Bruce Thomas\u2019s videos that this wonderful instrument has four strings, and <em>he<\/em> moves his fingers up and down.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The husband stopped playing for a moment, sighed, and replied, \u2018You are a woman long of nasal hair and short of understanding.\u00a0 Of course he moves his fingers up and down.\u00a0 He&#8217;s still looking for the right place.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve <em>found<\/em> it!\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an Armenian folk tale that tells of a man who had a bass guitar with only one string, which he used to play for hours on end \u2014 always holding his finger in the same place.\u00a0 For seven years his wife put up with this note in the patient expectation that her husband would die of boredom. But since that never happened, one evening she\u00a0 remarked gently,\u00a0\u2018I\u2019ve noticed on Bruce Thomas\u2019s videos that this wonderful instrument has four strings, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/?p=252\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}