{"id":14233,"date":"2012-11-13T21:34:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T02:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/?p=14233"},"modified":"2013-04-05T16:50:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T20:50:43","slug":"sunday-at-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/?p=14233","title":{"rendered":"Sunday afternoon in the park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/?attachment_id=14238\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14238\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/thievery-1-519.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"519\" height=\"389\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/thievery-1-519.jpg 519w, https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/thievery-1-519-433x325.jpg 433w, https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/thievery-1-519-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was roaming around Washington Square Park looking for the Rwandan drummers from the <strong>Sweet Dreams<\/strong> documentary but instead ran into <strong>Sneak Thievery<\/strong> &#8211; an orchestra dishing out some hot &#038; smoky jazz &#038; blues tunes!  <strong>Sneak Thievery<\/strong> band members were armed with a trumpet, banjo, upright bass, &#038; drums as they took us back to the times of Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Bessie Smith, &#038; Louis Armstrong! They even encouraged me to pop out my quirky two-step! Their rendition of St. James Infirmary blew my toupe off!<\/p>\n<p>I never did find the Rwandan drummer performance at the park because I had to dance back to IFC Center for the screening of DRIVERS WANTED.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/?attachment_id=14239\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14239\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/thievery-2-519.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"519\" height=\"389\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/thievery-2-519.jpg 519w, https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/thievery-2-519-433x325.jpg 433w, https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/thievery-2-519-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"519\" height=\"292\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/coHa-o0Pexs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After that I ran into <strong>Paul the Birdman<\/strong> of Washington Square park along with his friend Larry Reddick tending to their flightful friends of the park! No lie, they had a pigeon that they were identifying as Choco!  Check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2012\/05\/11\/photos_meet_the_birdman_of_washingt.php#photo-7\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>gothamist article<\/strong><\/a> for more information on The Birdman and Choco?! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/?attachment_id=14235\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14235\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/birdman1-519.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"birdman1 519\" width=\"519\" height=\"389\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/birdman1-519.jpg 519w, https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/birdman1-519-433x325.jpg 433w, https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/birdman1-519-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/?attachment_id=14236\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14236\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/birdman2-519.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"birdman2 519\" width=\"519\" height=\"389\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/birdman2-519.jpg 519w, https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/birdman2-519-433x325.jpg 433w, https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/birdman2-519-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/?attachment_id=14237\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14237\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/birdman3-519.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"519\" height=\"389\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/birdman3-519.jpg 519w, https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/birdman3-519-433x325.jpg 433w, https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/birdman3-519-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was roaming around Washington Square Park looking for the Rwandan drummers from the Sweet Dreams documentary but instead ran into Sneak Thievery &#8211; an orchestra dishing out some hot &#038; smoky jazz &#038; blues tunes! Sneak Thievery band members were armed with a trumpet, banjo, upright bass, &#038; drums as they took us back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1893,8,180],"tags":[1767,1671,220,1766,1765],"class_list":["post-14233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-mrc","category-music","category-photos","tag-birdman","tag-blues","tag-jazz","tag-pigeons","tag-washington-square-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14233"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16382,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14233\/revisions\/16382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}