{"id":794,"date":"2012-04-16T17:10:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T22:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/?p=794"},"modified":"2018-11-30T13:52:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T19:52:31","slug":"theyre-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/theyre-off\/","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;re Off!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a thrilling day &#8211; the Dreg Songs are on their way &#8216;home&#8217;!<\/p>\n<p>The rowing clubs from Newhaven, Portobello and (s00n) Port Seton met with me (online) to learn what I&#8217;ve discovered about the Dreg Songs (if you were at Mystic last June or the American Folklore Society meeting in Bloomington last October, you know what I mean). They now have access to musical transcriptions, sound files and historic images all of which they will use to reconstruct these songs on the water. Meeting online was a bit ethereal (Minneapolis, Portobello, Newhaven, Kent and Angus) but the enthusiasm was solid. The energy around this project is wonderful. Thanks everyone!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1396\" src=\"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Newhaven.jpg\" alt=\"Newhaven Coastal Rowing\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Newhaven.jpg 600w, https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Newhaven-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Newhaven-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a thrilling day &#8211; the Dreg Songs are on their way &#8216;home&#8217;! The rowing clubs from Newhaven, Portobello and (s00n) Port Seton met with me (online) to learn what I&#8217;ve discovered about the Dreg Songs (if you were at Mystic last June or the American Folklore Society meeting in Bloomington last October, you know&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}