{"id":2546,"date":"2018-03-11T18:50:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T18:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2546"},"modified":"2018-03-11T18:50:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T18:50:26","slug":"i-am-charlie-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2018\/03\/i-am-charlie-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"I am Charlie Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had always wondered why the GAP Band was in this weird zone, universally praised and known while being completely obscure and different.<\/p>\n<p>I had always wondered why so many of those grooves and amazing anthems sounded so similar.<\/p>\n<p>All the answers are in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/I-Am-Charlie-Wilson\/dp\/1476790086\" target=\"_blank\">his book<\/a>. I read it months ago and it still makes me sad. They got robbed. They got pissed. Brotherhood might not be what you think it is.<\/p>\n<p>The GAP (standing for Greenwood, Archer and Pine, where the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tulsa_race_riot\" target=\"_blank\">Tulsa riots happened<\/a>) Band is huge. Charlie\u2019s voice\u2019s enthusiasm is unmatchable. I feel him when he talks about learning music and how he was fascinated by harmony while teachers were telling him to focus on melody. I had the same shit happening to me when I learned piano. Stacked notes over sequences of notes any day, I don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m glad you\u2019re at peace now man. Thank you for the absolute bangers you guys created and thank you for writing it all down, uncle Charlie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had always wondered why the GAP Band was in this weird zone, universally praised and known while being completely obscure and different. I had always wondered why so many of those grooves and amazing anthems sounded so similar. All the answers are in his book. I read it months ago and it still makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2547,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions\/2547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}