{"id":425,"date":"2013-12-13T00:11:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T00:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=425"},"modified":"2025-01-19T17:09:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T17:09:22","slug":"proudly-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"proudly smilen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/images\/fiddlemouth.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>almost haunting at times<br \/>\nto think back when<br \/>\nhe magically<br \/>\nplayed<br \/>\nthese instruments<br \/>\nof music&#8230;..<br \/>\nso naturally<br \/>\nsimultaneously<br \/>\nwith ease<br \/>\nthe fiddle<br \/>\nand the mouth organ<\/p>\n<p>today they sit<br \/>\nmotionless<br \/>\nno sound from a bow&#8217;s<br \/>\nstrong<br \/>\ndownward<br \/>\nthrust<br \/>\na new world<br \/>\nindicator<br \/>\nof<br \/>\nhis Scot Irish roots<br \/>\nthe reed plate silent<br \/>\nno longer stimulated<br \/>\nby the flow of his breath<br \/>\nand manipulated<br \/>\nby the cup of his hand<\/p>\n<p>I often wonder<br \/>\nwho will find the passion<br \/>\nto resurrect<br \/>\nthese instruments<br \/>\nof music<br \/>\nfrom their place of rest \u00a0~<br \/>\nmaybe<br \/>\njust maybe<br \/>\nmy grandpa&#8217;s<br \/>\ngreat&#8230; great<br \/>\ngrandchildren<\/p>\n<p>he&#8217;d listen if they did<br \/>\nand then<br \/>\nproudly smile<\/p>\n<p>Image &amp; Words by ~Keith Alan Hamilton~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>almost haunting at times to think back when he magically played these instruments of music&#8230;.. so naturally simultaneously with ease the fiddle and the mouth organ today they sit motionless no sound from a bow&#8217;s strong downward thrust a new world indicator of his Scot Irish roots the reed plate silent no longer stimulated by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=425\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;proudly smilen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imagewords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10318,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/10318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}