{"id":228,"date":"2010-06-29T14:28:57","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T21:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ukuleletonya.com\/blog\/?p=228"},"modified":"2013-03-02T17:17:01","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T00:17:01","slug":"welcoming-in-summer-with-some-ukulele-strummin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ukuleletonya.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/welcoming-in-summer-with-some-ukulele-strummin","title":{"rendered":"Welcoming in summer with some ukulele strummin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do lawn chairs, mosquitos, music stands and the summer solstice have in common?<\/p>\n<p>They were all in evidence as members of Ukuleles of Paradise heralded the first day of summer with an evening of \u201cPlunkin\u2019 in the Park.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than a dozen of us gathered at Paradise\u2019s Rotary Grove Aquatic Park (aka \u201cthe duck pond\u201d) just off Buschmann Road for the fun. While we began the evening with some classic summer tunes (\u201cYankee Doodle\u201d and \u201cTake Me Out to the Ballgame\u201d) we had plenty of time to strum and sing some of our \u201cold\u201d favorites before the evening was through.<\/p>\n<p><em>Some interesting findings from that evening:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We didn\u2019t appear to scare anyone away who was already enjoying the park.<\/li>\n<li>No ducks joined us in a musical chorus.<\/li>\n<li>Mosquitoes become more aggressive as the shadows grow longer (but my new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.off.com\/clip-on-mosquito-repellent\" target=\"_blank\">OFF! \u201cclip-on mosquito repellant\u201d device<\/a> seemed to keep the little biting buggers  away from those downwind of me&#8212;or perhaps it was just something about me???)<\/li>\n<li>Collapsible lawn chairs without arms are best because there\u2019s nothing to interfere with energetic ukulele right- and left-hand techniques. Over at Walgreens (corner of Skyway and Bille) they have the perfect outdoor jamming chairs: only $6.99 and they come in turquoise, deep blue, green and PINK!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How about joining us in July? We\u2019ll be at the same place and time (6:30 pm) on Monday, July 19.<\/p>\n<p>(Oh, and if you have great mosquito repellent, I want to sit downwind of <strong>you<\/strong>!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do lawn chairs, mosquitos, music stands and the summer solstice have in common? They were all in evidence as members of Ukuleles of Paradise heralded the first day of summer with an evening of \u201cPlunkin\u2019 in the Park.\u201d More than a dozen of us gathered at Paradise\u2019s Rotary Grove Aquatic Park (aka \u201cthe duck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ukuleles-of-paradise"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ukuleletonya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Ukuleles-Of-Paradise.jpg?fit=960%2C500","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Wqkt-3G","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ukuleletonya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ukuleletonya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ukuleletonya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ukuleletonya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ukuleletonya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/ukuleletonya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"http:\/\/ukuleletonya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ukuleletonya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ukuleletonya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ukuleletonya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ukuleletonya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}