{"id":1708,"date":"2017-02-08T19:23:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T00:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2017-02-08T19:27:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T00:27:46","slug":"jonathan-byrd-from-bed-springs-to-the-worlds-stages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1708","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Byrd: From bed springs to the world&#8217;s stages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Jonathan Byrd\" href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/55518ea7e4b0f3050ce9ff3d\/555a31eee4b076c50e0b9a7f\/55be8442e4b0681497fbd1e9\/1481922662126\/Jonathan-Byrd_6902.jpg\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\" data-header=\"true\" data-footer=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/55518ea7e4b0f3050ce9ff3d\/555a31eee4b076c50e0b9a7f\/55be8442e4b0681497fbd1e9\/1481922662126\/Jonathan-Byrd_6902.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathan Byrd\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ever lie under a bed as a kid, hiding from adults or siblings, looking for something to do?<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Byrd did.<\/p>\n<p>But unlike many other kids, he started to play the bed springs, one weird &#8216;&#8221;plonk&#8221; after another in a series he recognized as musical.<\/p>\n<p>And so life in music was begun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Craft-2017-2-9_Byrd.mp3\">Listen in<\/a> for more insights into Byrd&#8217;s life, ahead of the February 2017 release of his 10th album, <em>Mother Tongue<\/em> and his February 11 appearance at Six String Concerts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_529\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1708-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Craft-2017-2-9_Byrd.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Craft-2017-2-9_Byrd.mp3\">http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Craft-2017-2-9_Byrd.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Craft-2017-2-9_Byrd.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1708-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Craft-2017-2-9_Byrd.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Craft-2017-2-9_Byrd.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever lie under a bed as a kid, hiding from adults or siblings, looking for something to do? Jonathan Byrd did. But unlike many other kids, he started to play the bed springs, one weird &#8216;&#8221;plonk&#8221; after another in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1708\">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":[7,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-to-attend","category-six-string-concerts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}