{"id":220,"date":"2006-05-01T21:10:23","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T11:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=220"},"modified":"2006-05-01T21:11:47","modified_gmt":"2006-05-01T11:11:47","slug":"the-things-you-find-at-swap-meets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"The things you find at swap-meets!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This would have to have been one my more successful swap-meet scavenges&#8230; About 2 weeks ago I spotted a mandolin for sale at the Woden swap meet &#8211; but I was ina rush and didn&#8217;t try it out. This time the mando was back, so I sauntered up &#8211; casual like &#8211; so as not to seem overly interested, after all this was a flat back mandolin and I had tried a few AU$250 mandos in a couple of music shops, so I knew what I should expect for the money.<\/p>\n<p>I picked it up and had a quiet pick at it hmmm &#8211; then I asked the bloke for a plectrum and went through a few chords &#8211; this was not a $250 mando &#8211; though that&#8217;s what he was asking for it, no, it sounded much better than that. After parting with AU$220 and ensuring the nicely-made case and a new set of strings came with it, I walked away with a Greg Bennett MA3 McCoy mandolin worth AU$469 &#8211; I think this might be just what my daughter Eve might be looking for \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"I219\" onclick=\"if(true)toggleImage(219);else alert('There is no thumbnail associated with this photo.');return false;\" href=\"javascript:void()\" \/><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Greg Bennett mandolin\" href=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/SM10TS.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image219\" alt=\"Greg Bennett mandolin\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/SM10TS.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This would have to have been one my more successful swap-meet scavenges&#8230; About 2 weeks ago I spotted a mandolin for sale at the Woden swap meet &#8211; but I was ina rush and didn&#8217;t try it out. This time the mando was back, so I sauntered up &#8211; casual like &#8211; so as not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}