{"id":2742,"date":"2010-09-20T10:54:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T16:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/?p=2742"},"modified":"2010-09-20T10:54:43","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T16:54:43","slug":"the-universal-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/the-universal-language\/","title":{"rendered":"The universal language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t able to go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvfest.com\/\">Winfield<\/a> this year, so I only just now discovered that the winner of the International Fingerstyle Guitar Championship last Thursday evening was Akihiro Tanaka of Kyoto. He took second place last year, and I caught <a href=\"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/2009\/09\/20\/cultural-notes\/\">his main stage performance<\/a> then.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: The international language II<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Old-time music has its followers in Japan. Some friends of mine recently discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fTjVuY3T4Gc\">one of their videos<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/oldtime.webdeki-bbs.com\/\">this bulletin board<\/a>. (See <a href=\"http:\/\/oldtime.webdeki-bbs.com\/reg.php?pid=oldtime&#038;parent_id=104&#038;mode2=thread\">item #104<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t able to go to Winfield this year, so I only just now discovered that the winner of the International Fingerstyle Guitar Championship last Thursday evening was Akihiro Tanaka of Kyoto. He took second place last year, and I caught his main stage performance then. Update: The international language II Old-time music has its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/the-universal-language\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The universal language&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[669,617],"class_list":["post-2742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-music","tag-winfield"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-Ie","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742","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=2742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}