{"id":7108,"date":"2021-06-17T06:39:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T13:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=7108"},"modified":"2021-06-17T06:39:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T13:39:41","slug":"lynyrd-skynyrd-busker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/lynyrd-skynyrd-busker\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynyrd Skynyrd Busker"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-7108\" data-postid=\"7108\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-7108 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>I pulled up to a stop sign in a vast parking lot. A McDonald&#8217;s was next to me. I saw a man sitting on the grass playing a guitar. He had long brown hair and a handlebar mustache, nicely twirled. A bicycle laden with possessions rested near him. He was busking the exit of the McDonald&#8217;s drive-thru lane. I powered down my window and fished out a buck. I said something. He came over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDo you know any Beatles?\u201d I said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo, I just learned how to play. I got the guitar nine months ago.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I handed him the buck. He thanked me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDo you know any songs?\u201d I said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA few.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPlay me one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHow about Lynyrd Skynyrd?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rock and roll died for me a long, long time ago, and nothing is deader than a Lynyrd Skynyrd song on classic rock radio. If one comes, I&#8217;ll turn it off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSure,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He launched into the immortal opening lick of \u201cSweet Home Alabama.\u201d He was playing the hell out of it. He sounded great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTurn it up,\u201d I said. He smiled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou got it brother,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had to move. I drove away hearing him strumming the song. If I heard singing, I was damn well turning around, giving him a $20, and listening to the whole damn tune.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I didn&#8217;t hear any vocals and I kept on driving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d be back soon to check on his progress. If he plays anything by the Stones, he&#8217;s getting 50 bucks.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I pulled up to a stop sign in a vast parking lot. A McDonald&#8217;s was next to me. I saw a man sitting on the grass playing a guitar. He had long brown hair and a handlebar mustache, nicely twirled. A bicycle laden with possessions rested near him. He was busking the exit of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7108","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\/7108","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=7108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7111,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7108\/revisions\/7111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}