{"id":14953,"date":"2012-08-13T17:47:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T21:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=14953"},"modified":"2012-08-14T23:15:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T03:15:40","slug":"last-man-standing-lefty-guitarists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-lefty-guitarists\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: Lefty Guitarists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14954\" title=\"bieber\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/bieber.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/bieber.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/bieber-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>It&#8217;s 5:12 PM EST and I just learned that today, August 13, is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lefthandersday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Left-Hander&#8217;s Day<\/a><\/strong>. What the hell? I&#8217;ve been left handed all my life and no one&#8217;s ever told me about this day. In the remaining hours of this blessed day, let&#8217;s have a time-sensitive Last Man Standing on left-handed guitarists. Lefty bassists count too, but we&#8217;ll <strong>rule out<\/strong> banjo players, mandolin players, lute players, lap-steel players, and the like. We&#8217;ll also <strong>rule out<\/strong> guitarists like myself, who are left handed but decided to learn to play right handed to make it easier to buy guitars and play other people&#8217;s guitars. The guitarist (or bassist) has to play left handed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m kicking things off with <strong>Justin Bieber<\/strong>, who coincidentally I just learned was a left-handed guitarist about a half hour ago, when I picked up a recent issue of <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> and saw him strumming southpaw.<\/p>\n<p>Entries in this time-sensitive Last Man Standing will run through <strong>11:59 pm EST<\/strong>. The actual Last Townsperson Standing will be awarded a VERY SPECIAL PRIZE!\u00a0Game on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 5:12 PM EST and I just learned that today, August 13, is Left-Hander&#8217;s Day. What the hell? I&#8217;ve been left handed all my life and no one&#8217;s ever told me about this day. In the remaining hours of this blessed day, let&#8217;s have a time-sensitive Last Man Standing on left-handed guitarists. Lefty bassists count <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-lefty-guitarists\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}