{"id":6700,"date":"2021-01-25T07:37:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T15:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6700"},"modified":"2021-01-25T07:37:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T15:37:38","slug":"blues-brothers-backpack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/blues-brothers-backpack\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues Brothers Backpack"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-6700\" data-postid=\"6700\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-6700 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>It was a bright frosty urban morning and I walked to the post office to mail some of my books to new readers. Somehow they keep finding me and I express my highest gratitude for their support. It keeps Nestucca Spit Press in business and 2021 promises to be our most ambitious year yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So there I was sporting my trusty corduroy coat and Fort George stocking cap when I heard music, what vaguely sounded like soul music, coming from across the block. I looked that direction and spotted a rotund masked man carrying a backpack strapped over his shoulders. Dangling from the backpack was a tiny speaker that was blasting\u2014if blasting is the word\u2014out the music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I heard horns and the unmistakable swagger of instrumental soul music. I couldn&#8217;t place it, but then I did. It was a tune from the Blues Brothers&#8217; <em>Briefcase Full of Blues<\/em>. I could not believe my ears! What in name of a cocaine-addled John Belushi was this man broadcasting this classic album through a tiny speaker dangling from his backpack during the middle of a pandemic and not long after a thwarted government coup?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hot damn! I love this album and used to own it. Jake and Elwood and the all-star band backing them! <em>Play it Steve! <\/em>The suits! The blow! The harmonica riffs! The mad dancing on the SNL skits! Oh to listen to this CD again. I can&#8217;t download it because I have never downloaded a single music track in my life and never will. A man can only buy <em>Exile on Main Street <\/em>so many times!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What the hell! I thought. No need to find the CD. I&#8217;d just follow the man and listen to the entire album this fine morning and then mail the books later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was positively giddy at the prospect!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a bright frosty urban morning and I walked to the post office to mail some of my books to new readers. Somehow they keep finding me and I express my highest gratitude for their support. It keeps Nestucca Spit Press in business and 2021 promises to be our most ambitious year yet. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6703,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6700\/revisions\/6703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}