{"id":2331,"date":"2015-09-12T23:48:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T23:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parkergambino.com\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2016-09-15T17:44:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T17:44:14","slug":"ramon-mercado-september-12-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/?p=2331","title":{"rendered":"Ramon Mercado  &#8211;  September 12, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ramon Mercado\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 Busking New York\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 September 12, 2015<\/p>\n<p>Mercado was occupying the smallest possible amount of space on the subway platform, performing totally hunched over.\u00a0 He had two sets of tiny foot-percussions: a pair of mini maracas, and a set of diminutive drums.\u00a0 One or the other needed constant adjustment between songs.\u00a0 Fortunately I finished slightly before he did; I&#8217;m not sure if I made him paranoid.\u00a0 His right hand seemed to have a permanent deformation, I wondered if it was from his guitar playing.\u00a0 Communication on all fronts was not clear; I hope I got his name right!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2384\" style=\"width: 426px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ramon-Mercado-v2-signed-jpg.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2384\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2384\" title=\"Ramon-Mercado-v2-signed-jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ramon-Mercado-v2-signed-jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ramon-Mercado-v2-signed-jpg.jpg 416w, https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ramon-Mercado-v2-signed-jpg-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramon Mercado<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramon Mercado\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 Busking New York\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 September 12, 2015 Mercado was occupying the smallest possible amount of space on the subway platform, performing totally hunched over.\u00a0 He had two sets of tiny foot-percussions: a pair of mini maracas, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/?p=2331\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[471,24,1068,1067],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2977,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions\/2977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}