{"id":23868,"date":"2016-03-28T17:55:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T21:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=23868"},"modified":"2016-03-30T13:58:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T17:58:53","slug":"fame-throwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=23868","title":{"rendered":"Fame Throwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week is the 22nd anniversary of my acquisition of two important things: my first copy of Pavement's <i>Slanted and Enchanted<\/i> and my beloved Tele<sup>Plus<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p class=wp-caption>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/tele_tree.jpg\"><br \/>\nFrom a medium format slide taken by Carla.<br \/>\nBefore the neck and pickguard turned all mellow and yellow.\n<\/p>\n<p>And I bought them at the same time, at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x89d16720f6910e53:0xb459906f70a6dfa6!2m5!2m2!1i80!2i80!3m1!2i100!3m1!7e1!4s\/maps\/place\/buzzo%27s%2Bgeneseo\/@42.7956012,-77.8169347,3a,75y,288.18h,90t\/data%3D*213m4*211e1*213m2*211sMqIxugx2r5LdZcOevpH-Rg*212e0*214m2*213m1*211s0x0:0xb459906f70a6dfa6!5sbuzzo%27s+geneseo+-+Google+Search&imagekey=!1e2!2sMqIxugx2r5LdZcOevpH-Rg&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwisjY-ZpOjLAhWJsYMKHfEkDP4Qpx8IdzAK\">Buzzo's Music<\/a> in Geneseo, NY.  Here's the receipt, which I kept in my wallet for 21 years. Last time I noticed it sitting there behind my NY fishing license from 1987 it was starting to come apart, so I scanned it.<\/p>\n<p class=wp-caption>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/buzzo_receipt.jpg\">\n<\/p>\n<p>$13.98 for the CD. $599.95 for the guitar. I got a $160 trade-in on my old guitar (which <a href=\"https:\/\/reverb.com\/item\/269724-fender-squier-1989-hm3-heavy-metal-strat-blue-red-crackle-body-floyd-rose-hm-3\">looked like this<\/a>) and the rest I paid with the proceeds from being <a href=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1706\">a medical test subject<\/a>. Ah, the good old days.<\/p>\n<p>Happy anniversary, guitar!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week is the 22nd anniversary of my acquisition of two important things: my first copy of Pavement's Slanted and Enchanted and my beloved TelePlus. From a medium format slide taken by Carla. Before the neck and pickguard turned all mellow and yellow. And I bought them at the same time, at Buzzo's Music in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23868"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23884,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23868\/revisions\/23884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}