{"id":78,"date":"2009-02-20T17:19:29","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T22:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appalachia.matthewmosher.us\/?p=78"},"modified":"2009-02-20T17:19:29","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T22:19:29","slug":"reason-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/intent\/reason-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Appalachia is awesome!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When I was at RISD I spent a lot of time studying the history and culture of the Appalachians through English courses and a furniture department independent study, which resulted in the following instruments. \u00a0The Appalachians have a unique Scotch-Irish heritage that runs the length of the mountains. \u00a0Most of the Scots that settled this area made a rather long stop in Ireland first. \u00a0In an attempt to clear more land for them selves, and civilize the Irish, the British sent many Scottish Families over to Ireland. \u00a0Colonizing Ireland, however, did not go quite according to plan, and suddenly there were all these Scotts in Ireland that didn&#8217;t want to be there, that the Irish didn&#8217;t want there, and that the British wouldn&#8217;t let come home. \u00a0So many of them came to America and made the Appalachian Mountains their new home. \u00a0In response to this mixed heritage and loss of homeland I made this Banjo and Dulcimer, both of which are uniquely Appalachian instruments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.org\/appalachia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/scotchirish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-79\" title=\"scotchirish\" src=\"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.org\/appalachia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/scotchirish-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"scotchirish\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/scotchirish-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/scotchirish.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So naturally I think it will be great to spend some time on these mountains, and hey, maybe I&#8217;ll even get to meet someone who can actually play one of these bad boys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appalachia is awesome! \u00a0 When I was at RISD I spent a lot of time studying the history and culture of the Appalachians through English courses and a furniture department independent study, which resulted in the following instruments. \u00a0The Appalachians have a unique Scotch-Irish heritage that runs the length of the mountains. \u00a0Most of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[28,36,42],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intent","tag-irish","tag-music","tag-scotch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}