{"id":110,"date":"2012-02-15T12:35:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T12:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/?p=110"},"modified":"2012-02-15T12:43:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T12:43:58","slug":"food-for-appalachian-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"Food for Appalachian thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><em>Prices in USD, based on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">new<\/span> instruments widely available ca. 2012 in the United States only.<br \/>\n&#8220;Viable&#8221; means the bottom level of available instruments that most existing players of the instrument seem to consider actually acceptable for a beginner&#8217;s use, based on real input from existing players, general forum responses to the very common &#8220;What guitar \/ banjo \/ mandolin should I start with&#8221; threads, and other such input around the Internet.\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table width=\"400\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"3\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Viable<\/em><\/span> &#8220;starter&#8221;<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Intermediate<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Pro-grade<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Electric guitar<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>130-150<\/td>\n<td>300-450<\/td>\n<td>1000-2500+<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Acoustic guitar<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>150-250<\/td>\n<td>300-800<\/td>\n<td>1000-3000+<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Electronic keyboard<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>75-300<\/td>\n<td>400-500<\/td>\n<td>700-1500+<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Dobro<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>400-700<\/td>\n<td>800-1000<\/td>\n<td>1500-3500+<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Banjo<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>400-700<\/td>\n<td>1000+<\/td>\n<td>1500-9000+<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Mandolin<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>500-700<\/td>\n<td>1000+<\/td>\n<td>2000-9000+<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Kind of ironic how comparatively expensive it is to be a poor-redneck &#8220;traditionalist&#8221; these days.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prices in USD, based on new instruments widely available ca. 2012 in the United States only. &#8220;Viable&#8221; means the bottom level of available instruments that most existing players of the instrument seem to consider actually acceptable for a beginner&#8217;s use, based on real input from existing players, general forum responses to the very common &#8220;What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crazy-almost-certainly-invalid-theories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blargh.lossfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}