{"id":516,"date":"2008-02-17T13:43:41","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T17:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=516"},"modified":"2008-10-08T23:11:57","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T03:11:57","slug":"tony-bird-concert-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"Tony Bird Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passim, Friday Feb 8. We went early enough to have supper at Veggie Planet, the cafe there, which was founded by a friend of Charley&#8217;s &#8212; Didi Emmons (I think that&#8217;s the name &#8212; hold on a second &#8212; yes, that&#8217;s right) who used to live in the same building as his best friends in Jamaica Plain. Didi wrote a cookbook <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalgourmet.com\/food\/egg\/egg1097\/vegeplanet.html\">Vegetarian Planet<\/a> which really made her name, at least locally. So the Cafe at Passim was originally hers, though she&#8217;s not closely involved with it any more, and named for the book.<\/p>\n<p>We were seated right next to the stage, off in one corner stage left, and couldn&#8217;t have asked for a better table. Really, that wasn&#8217;t surprising considering how small the audience was, how early we reserved tickets, and how early we got there.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve probably written about Tony Bird before. After the show, he came over and said to Arlene, &#8220;You have a really gorgeous voice. They should pay you to sit in the front at all my concerts and sing along.&#8221; That and the accompanying hug pretty much made her week.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--a678f4b10cdee2b15b07a97723449787--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passim, Friday Feb 8. We went early enough to have supper at Veggie Planet, the cafe there, which was founded by a friend of Charley&#8217;s &#8212; Didi Emmons (I think that&#8217;s the name &#8212; hold on a second &#8212; yes, that&#8217;s right) who used to live in the same building as his best friends in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=516\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tony Bird Concert&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}