{"id":73,"date":"2013-06-03T04:25:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T04:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattskats.com\/?p=73"},"modified":"2013-06-03T04:29:03","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T04:29:03","slug":"icks-nay-on-the-apper-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattskats.com\/2013\/06\/03\/icks-nay-on-the-apper-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"Icks-nay on the apper-ray =("},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt and I have been going through some preliminary ideas on wedding stuff. Back in 2006 when I was really getting good at facilitating drum circles, attending drum workshops in taiko, djembe, doumbek, and getting some pretty fun gigs doing it, I DREAMED of having a drum circle at my wedding! <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve *never* dreamed of a fancy white dress, I&#8217;ve never dreamed of my dad walking me down the aisle (although I love my dad dearly), I&#8217;ve never dreamed of wedding-y things like music or bridesmaids or honeymoons or bachelorette parties.<\/p>\n<p>But I literally DREAMT of doing a drum circle at my wedding!<\/p>\n<p>I posed the idea to my sweet engineer\/computer guy Matt, and I got a funny look =) Then I got a hesitation. Then I got a pained look. Lol. FORTUNATELY, drumming at my wedding is not as much of a dream now 7 years later.<\/p>\n<p>BUT, I asked if in lieu of a drum circle, perhaps we could hire a Rapping Reverend. My really good friend Lauren Bevilacqua is actually a REAL Rapping Reverend! You can hire her by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lfbmusictherapy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">contacting her<\/a>! FOR REAL!<\/p>\n<p>Again&#8230; I got funny looks. <\/p>\n<p>Back to the drawing board, folks! <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mattskats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MattsKat.png\" alt=\"Matts Kat\" width=\"600\" height=\"452\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mattskats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MattsKat.png 600w, https:\/\/mattskats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MattsKat-300x226.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt and I have been going through some preliminary ideas on wedding stuff. Back in 2006 when I was really getting good at facilitating drum circles, attending drum workshops in taiko, djembe, doumbek, and getting some pretty fun gigs doing it, I DREAMED of having a drum circle at my wedding! I&#8217;ve *never* dreamed of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattskats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattskats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattskats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattskats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattskats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattskats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattskats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattskats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattskats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}