{"id":1558,"date":"2009-05-15T06:54:36","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T11:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2009-05-15T06:54:36","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T11:54:36","slug":"repoststrangely-comforting-20090515story-of-his-life-time-and-again-american-music-masters-honoree-les-paul-saw-a-need-and-invented-something-to-fill-it-music-clevelandcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/15\/repoststrangely-comforting-20090515story-of-his-life-time-and-again-american-music-masters-honoree-les-paul-saw-a-need-and-invented-something-to-fill-it-music-clevelandcom\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost:Strangely Comforting 20090515:Story of his life: Time and again, American Music Masters honoree Les Paul saw a need and invented something to fill it &#8211; Music &#8211; Cleveland.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; display: block;\">\n<div>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 250px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/51342146@N00\/537547801\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"'88 Gibson Les Paul Standard\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1192\/537547801_817b579ada_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" alt=\"'88 Gibson Les Paul Standard\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">Image by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/51342146@N00\/537547801\">maury.mccown<\/a> via Flickr<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As for his greatest claim to fame &#8212; the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Solid body\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solid_body\">solid-body<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Electric guitar\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electric_guitar\">electric guitar<\/a> &#8212; Paul takes it in stride.<br \/>\n&#8220;I just feel as though if I hadn&#8217;t done it, someone else would have,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It was meant to be. Why me, I&#8217;ll never know, but I&#8217;m very grateful it was me.&#8221;<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/music\/index.ssf\/2008\/11\/story_of_his_life_time_and_aga.html\">Story of his life: Time and again, American Music Masters honoree Les Paul saw a need and invented something to fill it &#8211; Music &#8211; Cleveland.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/43a04e8f-95b6-4886-9c43-5e21957e48c4\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image by maury.mccown via Flickr As for his greatest claim to fame &#8212; the solid-body electric guitar &#8212; Paul takes it in stride. &#8220;I just feel as though if I hadn&#8217;t done it, someone else would have,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It was meant to be. Why me, I&#8217;ll never know, but I&#8217;m very grateful it was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/15\/repoststrangely-comforting-20090515story-of-his-life-time-and-again-american-music-masters-honoree-les-paul-saw-a-need-and-invented-something-to-fill-it-music-clevelandcom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost:Strangely Comforting 20090515:Story of his life: Time and again, American Music Masters honoree Les Paul saw a need and invented something to fill it &#8211; Music &#8211; Cleveland.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[489,653,824,980,982,1279,1312,1347],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts","tag-electric-guitar","tag-guitar","tag-les-paul","tag-music","tag-music-of-the-united-states","tag-shopping","tag-solid-body","tag-strings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}