{"id":7927,"date":"2010-12-05T00:17:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T08:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=7927"},"modified":"2012-08-18T20:56:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T03:56:53","slug":"aloha-xmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=7927","title":{"rendered":"Aloha Xmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ms. M and Oz let us know that they were going to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patricklandeza.com\/j3\/servlet\/HomePage\">slack-key guitarist Patrick Landeza<\/a> play Hawai&#8217;ian Christmas music at the San Leandro Public Library, and would we like to meet them there? I found out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herbohtajr.com\/\">Herb Ohta Jr.<\/a> would be playing too &#8212; Herb Ohta Jr., son of Ohta-san himself and one of the best &#8216;ukulelists alive! &#8212; and told Carol that we had to go.<\/p>\n<p>We arrived in time to eat the Hawai&#8217;ian dinner plate (rice, chicken teriyaki, macaroni salad, but no spam). The hall was filling up, and it was a nice crowd &#8212; older people, middle-aged people, young parents, kids. Haoles were definitely a minority. By the time Ms. M and Oz showed up, there were some two hundred people in the hall and we could not find seats together.<\/p>\n<p>Carol entered us in the raffle, and before the music started Patrick Landeza raffled off several items. A young girl got a bag for wine bottles. Next to be raffled off was a little bag with a bright floral pattern, obviously perfect for a young girl. Landeza joked that it was a &#8220;man purse,&#8221; then started laughing when he pulled out the name: &#8220;It&#8217;s going to a man: Dan Harper!&#8221; I went up and claimed my little floral purse. And against all odds, Carol also won something in the raffle: a little Hawai&#8217;ian wreath for a Christmas tree ornament.<\/p>\n<p>The music was perfect Christmas music &#8212; what could be better than traditional Hawai&#8217;ian songs at Christmas time? What could be better than hearing a master like Herb Ohta Jr. play &#8220;Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer&#8221; on the &#8216;ukulele? What could be better than hearing &#8220;Silent Night&#8221; sung in Hawai&#8217;ian, and interpreted by a hula dancer? And to top it all off, I got my man purse signed by Patrick Landeza and Herb Ohta Jr.:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Ukulelebag.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Aloha Xmas\" width=\"350\" height=\"294\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Ukulelebag.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Ukulelebag-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ms. M and Oz let us know that they were going to hear slack-key guitarist Patrick Landeza play Hawai&#8217;ian Christmas music at the San Leandro Public Library, and would we like to meet them there? I found out that Herb Ohta Jr. would be playing too &#8212; Herb Ohta Jr., son of Ohta-san himself and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[476],"tags":[299,126],"class_list":["post-7927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-roots-music","tag-christmas","tag-ukulele"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7930,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7927\/revisions\/7930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}