{"id":705,"date":"2010-08-11T14:01:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T21:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=705"},"modified":"2010-08-11T14:02:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T21:02:10","slug":"hot-day-at-the-zoo-zoograss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/hot-day-at-the-zoo-zoograss\/","title":{"rendered":"HOT DAY AT THE ZOO + Zoograss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Zoograss-M2-Review-MarApr2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-707\" title=\"Zoograss-M2-Review-MarApr2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Zoograss-M2-Review-MarApr2010.jpg\" alt=\"Zoograss\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Zoograss-M2-Review-MarApr2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Zoograss-M2-Review-MarApr2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>HOT DAY AT THE ZOO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Zoograss<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotdayatthezoo.com\" target=\"_blank\">hotdayatthezoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hot Day at the Zoo\u2019s live <em>Zoograss<\/em> benefits as much from the audience\u2019s audible enthusiasm and encouragement as it does from the group\u2019s own prowess. This is a bluegrass band best witnessed in concert\u2014appreciation for its rowdy, ramshackle sound is boosted considerably by a few beers and a dance floor. Even when the band dallies in heartfelt sentiment, as on \u201cBack This Way,\u201d there\u2019s more than a hint of irreverence involved: \u201cShe never tried to be a good mama to me\/She lied to me, she never cried for me\/And then that bitch, she died on me.\u201d The prolonged instrumental workouts on \u201cOld Mill\u201d and a raucous rendition of Peter Rowan\u2019s \u201cMidnight Moonlight\u201d reflect the players\u2019 considerable dexterity, but it\u2019s the audience\u2019s adrenaline that fuels these proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOT DAY AT THE ZOO Zoograss hotdayatthezoo.com Hot Day at the Zoo\u2019s live Zoograss benefits as much from the audience\u2019s audible enthusiasm and encouragement as it does from the group\u2019s own prowess. This is a bluegrass band best witnessed in concert\u2014appreciation for its rowdy, ramshackle sound is boosted considerably by a few beers and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,356,358,10159,271,357],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}