{"id":904,"date":"2008-09-02T22:47:04","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T02:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2008\/09\/02\/the-hands-of-a-jazz-man-will-have-to-do\/"},"modified":"2008-09-03T00:23:33","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T04:23:33","slug":"the-hands-of-a-jazz-man-will-have-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/904","title":{"rendered":"The hands of a jazz man will have to do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I got in an overdue pool workout today, hoping it would soothe the backache I&#8217;ve had since laboring over two big collage artworks last week. I&#8217;m in need of Jerome\u2019s practiced hands, and, lacking them, I\u2019m almost ready to consider the therapeutic course my friend Yu Saito prescribed for a painful back\u2014Kentucky bourbon plus a night on a hard floor. <\/p>\n<p>After three units of blood, doctors at UK are talking to Bruce about removing his spleen, which may be clotted and causing his periodic bleeding problem. Needless to say, he isn\u2019t too pleased with the situation, the spleen being an organ one would not of one\u2019s own volition ordinarily give up. Otherwise, he seems to be in much better spirits than I would be if I were in his position. Before our visit, Dana and I took some time for a delicious meal at Natasha\u2019s downtown. We had a table next to pianist Ko Tagawa, and his \u201csmooth sounds\u201d colored a relaxing dinner that may be as close to a 26th anniversary observation as we are likely to have.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I got in an overdue pool workout today, hoping it would soothe the backache I&#8217;ve had since laboring over two big collage artworks last week. I&#8217;m in need of Jerome\u2019s practiced hands, and, lacking them, I\u2019m almost ready to consider the therapeutic course my friend Yu Saito prescribed for a painful back\u2014Kentucky bourbon plus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,12,21,8,65,23,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}