{"id":76758,"date":"2021-02-13T09:09:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T17:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/?p=76758"},"modified":"2021-02-13T09:09:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T17:09:06","slug":"determination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/?p=76758","title":{"rendered":"Determination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;ve been mandated to stop so many businesses in California due to stay home orders.  My usual way of doing music, live for audiences is not allowed, gatherings not allowed&#8230;&#8230;for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mix and mingle that means so much to me has moved online.  I see some wonderful folks in 2D.   Some are people I have done things with in real life,  some  I only &#8220;meet&#8221; online.  We can all be global this way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I cannot stop doing music even when the work is gone.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This circumstance has given me a long awaited sabbatical.  I hope I have used it well and will continue to use it well.  I&#8217;ve been producing music, covers and originals that I publish at my YouTube channel.  My band members &amp; I coordinate and create music videos remotely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Here are the results so far.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"All Alone On Valentine&#039;s Day\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3GMh-iNyrXw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Hanging with my co-writer on this one Doug Legacy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"If I Was A Turkey aka The Turkey Song by Leslie Baker Trio\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lI2eO_6ashM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kMGK8mfKh88https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PBrbEBeiElk\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kMGK8mfKh88https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PBrbEBeiElk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kMGK8mfKh88https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PBrbEBeiElk\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kMGK8mfKh88https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PBrbEBeiElk\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kMGK8mfKh88https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PBrbEBeiElk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been mandated to stop so many businesses in California due to stay home orders. My usual way of doing music, live for audiences is not allowed, gatherings not allowed&#8230;&#8230;for now. The mix and mingle that means so much to me has moved online. I see some wonderful folks in 2D. Some are people I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/?p=76758\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Determination<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76758"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76761,"href":"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76758\/revisions\/76761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}