{"id":13463,"date":"2023-08-11T19:46:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T23:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/?p=13463"},"modified":"2023-08-11T19:47:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T23:47:38","slug":"eyrie-up-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/eyrie-up-37\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyrie up!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just posted tonight\u2019s Substacker: Bits & pieces of dis and dat<\/strong><\/a>. This one\u2019s a lengthy treatise on the incomparable Vince Guaraldi, with a leavening of nasty scumbag Saul Zaentz thrown in just for spice. A taste:<\/p>\n

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Guaraldi, see, was what I\u2019ve for many years referred to as a Player<\/em>\u2014first, last, and always. And as it happens, that means something your everyday squarejohn type of person can never fully grasp.<\/p>\n

See, over lo, these many years, as a Player my own self I\u2019ve had quite a few conversations with friends, acquaintances, and even veritable strangers about this very distinction. Eventually, as I\u2019d be boring all and sundry to tears with stories describing the travails of the Player\u2019s life, one well-meaning soul or another would always say it: \u201cWow, you most really love it, huh?\u201d To which close-but-not-quite assertion I would usually respond thusly: No, it isn\u2019t that. I DO love it, of course, but really, it\u2019s more that I\u2019m incapable of NOT doing it<\/strong>. It\u2019s just who I am, it\u2019s what I do<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Same-same with Vince Guaraldi: he didn\u2019t merely love doing it, he HAD to. His entire identity, his sense of self, was inextricably entwined with being up on that stage\u2014playing before a live audience, spreading the joy as far and as wide as he possibly could, right up until his heart literally gave out.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Go ye and read the rest of it, gang. There\u2019s even a lovely little musical interlude included with the rest of the bouillebaisse<\/em>, one I\u2019m sure you\u2019re gonna enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just posted tonight\u2019s Substacker: Bits & pieces of dis and dat. This one\u2019s a lengthy treatise on the incomparable Vince Guaraldi, with a leavening of nasty scumbag Saul Zaentz thrown in just for spice. A taste: Guaraldi, see, was what I\u2019ve for many years referred…<\/p>\n

Would you like to know more? Eyrie up!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-eyrie","wpcat-199-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13465,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13463\/revisions\/13465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}