{"id":113,"date":"2011-12-19T20:29:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T20:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.heavenlysight.org\/?p=113"},"modified":"2012-01-31T20:24:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T20:24:46","slug":"blind-boy-paxton-is-not-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.heavenlysight.org\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Blind Boy Paxton is not blind"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_151\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heavenlysight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/BlindBoyPaxton2.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-151\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-151\" title=\"BlindBoyPaxton2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.heavenlysight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/BlindBoyPaxton2-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.heavenlysight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/BlindBoyPaxton2-300x241.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.heavenlysight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/BlindBoyPaxton2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Bill Steber \u00a92010<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Blind Boy Paxton is not blind, but rather a 20 year old musician from Watts, CA who plays early blues and jazz.\u00a0 Although his blindness may be inauthentic, his sound definitely shows his dedication to the music and is evidence of the mystique of the traveling blind blues musician. You can hear him and decide for yourself in this interview from Down Home Radio Show.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.downhomeradioshow.com\/2008\/10\/interview-with-blind-boy-paxton\/\">http:\/\/www.downhomeradioshow.com\/2008\/10\/interview-with-blind-boy-paxton\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Blind Boy Paxton is not blind, but rather a 20 year old musician from Watts, CA who plays early blues and jazz.\u00a0 Although his blindness may be inauthentic, his sound definitely shows his dedication to the music and is evidence of the mystique of the traveling blind blues musician. You can hear him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.heavenlysight.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.heavenlysight.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.heavenlysight.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.heavenlysight.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.heavenlysight.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.heavenlysight.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"http:\/\/blog.heavenlysight.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.heavenlysight.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.heavenlysight.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.heavenlysight.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}