{"id":30714,"date":"2025-12-16T00:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=30714"},"modified":"2024-12-31T18:59:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T01:59:35","slug":"happy-birthday-shawn-swain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2025\/12\/happy-birthday-shawn-swain\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, Shawn Swain!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_30715\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/227_1593-RAW-Shawn-Swain-Mandolin-kitchen-dwellers-northwest-string-summit-standard.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30715\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/227_1593-RAW-Shawn-Swain-Mandolin-kitchen-dwellers-northwest-string-summit-standard.jpg\" alt=\"Shawn Swain Mandolin kitchen dwellers northwest string summit-standard\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30715\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shawn Swain on mandolin for the Kitchen Dwellers @ 2022 Northwest String Summit<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This photo caught my eye because of Shawn&#8217;s tattoos on his right arm. I believe it&#8217;s the &#8220;correct&#8221; instruments for a standard bluegrass band (guitar, mandolin, fiddle, banjo, and bass). The Kitchen Dwellers are missing a fiddle, and don&#8217;t usually fit the traditional bluegrass sound. I love it when they get heavy and\/or psychedelic. When they lean country I&#8217;m not much of a fan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo caught my eye because of Shawn&#8217;s tattoos on his right arm. I believe it&#8217;s the &#8220;correct&#8221; instruments for a standard bluegrass band (guitar, mandolin, fiddle, banjo, and bass). The Kitchen Dwellers are missing a fiddle, and don&#8217;t usually fit the traditional bluegrass sound. I love it when they get heavy and\/or psychedelic. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[413,1046,1035,890,1043],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30716,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30714\/revisions\/30716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}