{"id":226,"date":"2011-06-09T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rosenblath.ca\/wordpress\/?p=226"},"modified":"2011-06-09T13:23:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T17:23:10","slug":"les-pauls-birthday-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosenblath.ca\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/les-pauls-birthday-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Les Paul&#8217;s Birthday today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 \u2013 August 12, 2009)[3][4]\u2014known as Les Paul\u2014was an American jazz and country guitarist, songwriter and inventor. He was a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar which &#8220;made the sound of rock and roll possible&#8221;.[5] He is credited with many recording innovations. Although he was not the first to use the technique, his early experiments with overdubbing (also known as sound on sound),[6] delay effects such as tape delay, phasing effects and multitrack recording were among the first to attract widespread attention.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>For the whole story, checkout wikipedia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Les_Paul\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Les_Paul<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Les_Paul\"><img data-opt-id=2004821015  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Legendary Les Paul\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/80\/Les_Paul_live_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Legendary Les Paul<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fbconnect_head_share\"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/rosenblath.ca\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/les-pauls-birthday-today\/\" width=\"280px\" height=\"30px\"><\/fb:like><fb:share-button href=\"https:\/\/rosenblath.ca\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/les-pauls-birthday-today\/\" type=\"button_count\" ><\/fb:share-button><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 \u2013 August 12, 2009)[3][4]\u2014known as Les Paul\u2014was an American jazz and country guitarist, songwriter and inventor. He was a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar which &#8220;made the sound of rock &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rosenblath.ca\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/les-pauls-birthday-today\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-music-collaboration","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenblath.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenblath.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenblath.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenblath.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenblath.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rosenblath.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/rosenblath.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenblath.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenblath.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenblath.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}