{"id":121,"date":"2014-06-19T09:57:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T13:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothkindsradio.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2014-06-19T09:57:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T13:57:08","slug":"happy-birthday-to-lester-flatt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothkindsradio.com\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to Lester Flatt!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothkindsradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/lesterflatt-9f64202efae94768357e5708149fef949f06b0bb-s6-c30.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-122\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bothkindsradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/lesterflatt-9f64202efae94768357e5708149fef949f06b0bb-s6-c30.jpg\" alt=\"lesterflatt-9f64202efae94768357e5708149fef949f06b0bb-s6-c30\" width=\"948\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bothkindsradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/lesterflatt-9f64202efae94768357e5708149fef949f06b0bb-s6-c30.jpg 948w, https:\/\/www.bothkindsradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/lesterflatt-9f64202efae94768357e5708149fef949f06b0bb-s6-c30-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 948px) 100vw, 948px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lester Flatt was born today in 1914, in the town of <a title=\"Satellite\" href=\"http:\/\/www.satelliteviews.net\/cgi-bin\/g.cgi?fid=1283175&amp;state=TN&amp;ftype=church\" target=\"_blank\">Duncan&#8217;s Chapel, Tennessee<\/a>.\u00a0 Starting out playing with Clyde Moody, Charlie Monroe and eventually Bill Monroe, Lester became a household name after partnering with Earl Scruggs to form the Foggy Mountain Boys.\u00a0 A prolific songwriter, his two best known compositions are <a title=\"Foggy Mountain Breakdown\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6RvI6ZI2JWc\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Foggy Mountain Breakdown&#8221;<\/a> and <a title=\"Ballad of Jed Clampett\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kkRkGCm4atE&amp;feature=kp\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Ballad of Jed Clampett&#8221;<\/a>, which went to number one on the country music charts in 1963.\u00a0 Lester Flatt passed away in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o6nmib7UaKA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lester Flatt was born today in 1914, in the town of Duncan&#8217;s Chapel, Tennessee.\u00a0 Starting out playing with Clyde Moody, Charlie Monroe and eventually Bill Monroe, Lester became a household name after partnering with Earl Scruggs to form the Foggy Mountain Boys.\u00a0 A prolific songwriter, his two best known compositions are &#8220;Foggy Mountain Breakdown&#8221; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothkindsradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothkindsradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothkindsradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothkindsradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothkindsradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothkindsradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothkindsradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothkindsradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothkindsradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothkindsradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}