{"id":189968,"date":"2026-07-21T05:59:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T10:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=189968"},"modified":"2026-07-15T18:37:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T23:37:03","slug":"tune-of-the-day-310","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/tune-of-the-day-310\/","title":{"rendered":"Tune of the day #310"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sky - Toccata (Video)\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QgbgUrp1a70?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Francis Monkman was one of the founders of Curved Air. He left after their third album, and later joined Herbie Flowers, John Williams (the classical guitarist, not the <i>Star Wars<\/i> guy) and a couple others in the classical\/prog fusion band <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sky_(English\/Australian_band)\" target=\"_blank\">Sky<\/a>. He didn&#8217;t stay there long, either, but remained long enough to play the keys on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toccata_and_Fugue_in_D_minor,_BWV_565\" target=\"_blank\">toccata<\/a> that may or may not have been written by Bach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Monkman was one of the founders of Curved Air. He left after their third album, and later joined Herbie Flowers, John Williams (the classical guitarist, not the Star Wars guy) and a couple others in the classical\/prog fusion band Sky. He didn&#8217;t stay there long, either, but remained long enough to play the keys &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/tune-of-the-day-310\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tune of the day #310&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,710],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-tune"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-Nq0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190008,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189968\/revisions\/190008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}