{"id":589,"date":"2013-08-06T10:03:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T17:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ukuleletonya.com\/blog\/?p=589"},"modified":"2013-08-06T11:43:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T18:43:36","slug":"were-you-at-reno-heres-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ukuleletonya.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/were-you-at-reno-heres-proof","title":{"rendered":"Were you at Reno? Here&#8217;s proof!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I attend an ukulele festival I can <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">tell<\/span> you all about it, but, since I&#8217;m usually on the focusing end of the camera, I don&#8217;t typically have any visual proof that I was there. Well, except for the multiple credit card receipts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I figured other folks might face a similar issue (&#8220;What did you learn at the festival? Oh, I see, you&#8217;re still playing just a few chords? Well, did you <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">really<\/span> go???&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>So when I had a small booth at the 2013 Reno Uke Fest in April, I thought I&#8217;d add a free festival photo booth beside where I was selling my line of ukulele jewelry from the Pacific. [Side note:  My CPA says I can &#8220;write off&#8221; some of these festival expenses if I have a &#8220;real ukulele business&#8221; that makes a little &#8220;real&#8221; money, so now I do: See <a href=\"http:\/\/uketreasures.com\">http:\/\/uketreasures.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<p>I hung some background murals (thanks to the really nice&#8211;and tall!&#8211;guys from <a href=\"http:\/\/tydemusic.com\">Tyde Music<\/a> next door to my booth) and stocked the table with a variety of comic bubble sayings, cardboard lips and mustaches, zany sunglasses and, of course, flower lei. Then I invited folks to pose for their own souvenir photo of Reno Uke Fest 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Do you recognize any of the ukulele folks above? Just use the arrows to scroll through and see who was at Reno Ukulele Fest 2013. Yep, they were really there. And I have proof!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I attend an ukulele festival I can tell you all about it, but, since I&#8217;m usually on the focusing end of the camera, I don&#8217;t typically have any visual proof that I was there. Well, except for the multiple credit card receipts&#8230; I figured other folks might face a similar issue (&#8220;What did you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","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":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-personal","category-ukulele-festivals","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Wqkt-9v","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ukuleletonya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","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=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ukuleletonya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"http:\/\/ukuleletonya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ukuleletonya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ukuleletonya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ukuleletonya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}