{"id":719,"date":"2011-09-24T10:41:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T18:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=719"},"modified":"2011-09-24T11:40:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T19:40:57","slug":"a-little-nudge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"a little nudge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just received a note from long-time friend Bill Crow, fabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billcrowbass.com\/billcrowbass.com\/HOME.html\">bassist<\/a> and excellent writer and jazz raconteur (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Birdland-Broadway-Scenes-Jazz-Life\/dp\/0195085507\/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1316889287&#038;sr=1-3\">From Birdland to Broadway<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Jazz-Anecdotes-Second-Time-Around\/dp\/0195187954\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1316889287&#038;sr=1-1\">Jazz Anecdotes: Second Time Around<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>He asks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; did you abandon your blog?  I miss your comments. Hope it is because you&#8217;re doing something that&#8217;s too interesting too leave time for Devradowrite.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I keep making elaborate plans to re-launch this blog and life keeps getting in my way. The interesting diversion has been the re-focusing of my Luther Henderson biography and I am now back on track there and in high-gear. I will be describing the re-focus aspect, along with the challenges of biography and of writing about music, in some upcoming blog posts.  <\/p>\n<p>For those who want to know, the not-so-interesting diversions have been health-related (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=721\" target=\"_blank\">Diver Devra and HBOT<\/a>, just below). <\/p>\n<p>There are certain tenets to maintaining a successful blog, and primary among them is consistency. When I first began, back in 2005, I posted every weekday, and sometimes more. I don&#8217;t know if I will be able to keep up with myself, but it is clear now that I will just have to plunge back in and do the best I can. So, thanks for the nudge, Bill. <\/p>\n<p>If you ever have a chance to hear Bill play live, grab it. Tonight, anyone near enough to Delaware Water Gap, PA should head for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deerheadinn.com\/music\/music(this).htm\">Deer Head Inn<\/a> where Bill, along with Bob Keller, Lew DelGatto, Jesse Green and Tom Whaley, will be playing tunes from the Al Cohn &#038; Zoot Sims songbook. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just received a note from long-time friend Bill Crow, fabulous bassist and excellent writer and jazz raconteur (From Birdland to Broadway and Jazz Anecdotes: Second Time Around). He asks: &#8230; did you abandon your blog? I miss your comments. Hope it is because you&#8217;re doing something that&#8217;s too interesting too leave time for Devradowrite. I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=719\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;a little nudge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-n-that"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}