{"id":333,"date":"2007-12-11T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jim-n-mandie.com\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2012-03-08T11:42:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T18:42:55","slug":"bought-an-axe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"Bought an axe&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve wanted a guitar pretty much ever since I picked up the controller for Guitar Hero. I had one as a kid, and just like the kicking myself over quitting piano lessons, I&#8217;m kicking myself for having put that one down. Since I knew I&#8217;m gonna have plenty of free time (read: evenings with nothing to do), and I can only play so much Nintendo DS, I thought it would be a good idea to pick up a guitar and learn to play while I&#8217;m over in Iraq. Luckily for me, one of our SFCs already knows how to play, and has offered to teach me. So here she is:<br \/>\n<a href=\"Https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wpid1914-Axe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1915\" title=\"wpid1914-Axe.jpg\" src=\"Https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wpid1914-Axe-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wpid1914-Axe-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wpid1914-Axe.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s an Ibanez AS73B Semi-hollowbody electric. I like the sound of acoustic guitars, but wanted something with a little less action set up in the strings. I bought it at Rick&#8217;s Music Shop &amp; Guitar Service over in Manhattan even though I could have gotten it for $20 cheaper online. After talking to him for a considerable while I felt I had really gotten into the right place, and considering he sets up and tests all the guitars that come through his shop (even the el-cheapo box-sets) I felt the $20 over internet was a bargain. It&#8217;s loud enough that I can practice w\/o the amp, but sounds great hooked into the little amp I bought too.<\/p>\n<p>Practice, practice, practice. Then pack &amp; ship and practice when I get in country!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve wanted a guitar pretty much ever since I picked up the controller for Guitar Hero. I had one as a kid, and just like the kicking myself over quitting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916,"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/1916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}