{"id":76843,"date":"2023-10-10T18:31:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T01:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/?p=76843"},"modified":"2024-01-07T08:05:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T16:05:46","slug":"up-running-walking-from-2022-into-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/?p=76843","title":{"rendered":"Up &#038; Running (walking) from 2022 into 2023&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Little by little the schedule keeps getting more filled in and interesting.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I surprise myself over how much I truly love to perform music live!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Urban Press Winery in Burbank CA is turning into a fun spot I make appearances at&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bass-solo.mov\"><\/video><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Leslie Baker Trio with John Balbuena &amp; Ken Park @ Urban Press Winery, Burbank CA<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Cold-Duck-groove.mov\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/big-guitar-2.jpg\" alt=\"bakerbass\" class=\"wp-image-28196 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/big-guitar-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/big-guitar-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/big-guitar-2-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><div 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Urban Press Winery in Burbank CA is turning into a fun spot I make appearances at&#8230; Leslie Baker Trio with John Balbuena &amp; Ken Park @ Urban Press Winery, Burbank &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/?p=76843\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Up &#038; Running (walking) from 2022 into 2023&#8230;..<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,4,6,3],"tags":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76843"}],"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=76843"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76938,"href":"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76843\/revisions\/76938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliebakerwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}