{"id":2056,"date":"2018-08-06T08:03:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T04:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2018-08-06T08:03:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T04:03:28","slug":"kids-from-one-to-ninety-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2056","title":{"rendered":"Kids from one to ninety-two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The timeless and incomparable (insert other clich\u00e9s here) Tony Bennett turned 92 years old this past Friday. He gave\u00a0<em>us<\/em> the present, dropping another musical gem upon us like a gift from the gods. Just another day at the office for the man who&#8217;s done it so brilliantly for longer than most of us have been on this planet.<\/p>\n<p>Tony&#8217;s 2018 rendition of &#8220;Fascinating Rhythm&#8221; is but a single track from his forthcoming album with Diana Krall. Joined again by the Bill Charlap Trio, Tony sounds better than ever. And I&#8217;ve been saying that my whole life. Pardon the expression, but he doesn&#8217;t even need Diana, musically, saleswise, or otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a reason Frank Sinatra once called him &#8220;the best in the business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Because he is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The timeless and incomparable (insert other clich\u00e9s here) Tony Bennett turned 92 years old this past Friday. He gave\u00a0us the present, dropping another musical gem upon us like a gift from the gods. Just another day at the office for &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2056\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2057,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions\/2057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}