{"id":1864,"date":"2026-06-03T10:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2026-06-03T10:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:53:09","slug":"jim-the-musician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2026\/06\/jim-the-musician","title":{"rendered":"Jim, the musician"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jim<\/p>\n

I knew when Jim and I started dating that he was a musician. Over time I learned that he could play nearly any instrument, that he has nearly perfect pitch, that his biodad was a working musician<\/a> and that his musical tastes were as varied as the types of instruments that he played and collected.<\/p>\n

Over the past five years he’s reconnected with his friend Todd from The In Out, the band Jim played with in the 90s, before he became a father and wasn’t in bands for a while. They’ve been playing together in each other’s living rooms for a bit and a few months ago, somehow, got a gig playing in a record store. I haven’t been to a record store music show (or even a record store) in quite a long time but I trucked down to Florence Massachusetts to go to Feeding Tube Records<\/a> to see The In Out play their first gig in over a decade, the first time Jim’s played with them this century.<\/p>\n

It was neat to just be in a weird record store, hang out with Matthew and Michelle, old friends from Hampshire, and get to see my best guy play eight or nine songs to an appreciative group of indie music aficionados. What a nice time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jim plays in a band, I finally got to see him play out.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[653,108],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-jim","tag-music","h-entry","hentry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1869,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}