{"id":2968,"date":"2025-05-11T21:10:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T04:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=2968"},"modified":"2025-05-11T21:10:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T04:10:57","slug":"doodle-bops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=2968","title":{"rendered":"Doodle Bops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of my favorite things in the Bay Area is &#8220;Instant Band Night,&#8221; where musicians randomly get assigned to be in a &#8220;band&#8221; together. They have 5 minutes to plan what to play, and then they immediately go on stage and play a 5 minute song. It is incredible and beautiful and vulnerable. I always have a blast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/instant_band_night.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/instant_band_night-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2969\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/instant_band_night-1024x768.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/instant_band_night-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/instant_band_night-768x576.png 768w, http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/instant_band_night-1200x900.png 1200w, http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/instant_band_night.png 1209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The Doodle Bops&#8221; performing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You also have to come up with a band name, and a randomly selected band artist has 5 minutes (while you are performing) to draw the poster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I try to do it as often as I can, but it is a bit of a jaunt by BART. This is the only (small) downside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite things in the Bay Area is &#8220;Instant Band Night,&#8221; where musicians randomly get assigned to be in a &#8220;band&#8221; together. They have 5 minutes to plan what to play, and then they immediately go on stage and play a 5 minute song. It is incredible and beautiful and vulnerable. I always &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=2968\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Doodle Bops&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2970,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions\/2970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}