{"id":40,"date":"2011-05-22T11:49:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T18:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcoyne.com\/wordpress\/?p=40"},"modified":"2011-05-23T13:08:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T20:08:40","slug":"roots-show-of-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bcoyne.com\/wordpress\/roots-show-of-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Roots &#8211; Show of Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.showofhands.co.uk\/\">Show of Hands<\/a><\/strong> is an English acoustic roots and folk duo comprising singer-songwriter Steve Knightley and multi-instrumentalist Phil Beer. In recent years they have been accompanied on tour and in the studio by jazz double-bassist Miranda Sykes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P5h4PFBuzvw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This song was written by Steve Knightley\u00a0in response to a comment made by  the Junior British Culture Minister Kim Howells in 2001. The comment was, that listening  to three folk singers in a pub in Somerset was his idea of hell. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/1694054.stm\">Click hear for the BBC article about the Comment.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Show of Hands is an English acoustic roots and folk duo comprising singer-songwriter Steve Knightley and multi-instrumentalist Phil Beer. In recent years they have been accompanied on tour and in the studio by jazz double-bassist Miranda Sykes. This song was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bcoyne.com\/wordpress\/roots-show-of-hands\/\">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":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1PNGT-E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bcoyne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bcoyne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bcoyne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bcoyne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bcoyne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/bcoyne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"http:\/\/bcoyne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bcoyne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bcoyne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bcoyne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}