{"id":1758,"date":"2012-06-21T20:03:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T00:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2012-06-21T20:03:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T00:03:43","slug":"how-could-i-want-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/?p=1758","title":{"rendered":"How Could I Want More?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I moved back to Virginia in 1980, I was 11, and was in love with the Chesapeake Bay, and with the sound of Karen Carpenter&#8217;s voice.<\/p>\n<p>Some things never change, even 32 years later.<\/p>\n<p>So I have a wonderful photo of the shoreline along the Chesapeake Bay:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/hciwm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1759\" title=\"hciwm\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/hciwm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/hciwm.jpg 427w, https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/hciwm-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As well as a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Some years ago, an acquaintance asked if I&#8217;d ever hear a particular vocalist. He then played &#8220;How Could I Ask For More?&#8221; I stopped dead in my tracks because to me, it <em>sounded<\/em> like Karen Carpenter. But it wasn&#8217;t. I recognized Richard Carpenter doing the backing vocals, but &#8230; in one place the artist singing pronounces the word &#8220;cloudy&#8221; as &#8220;crowdy&#8221;. LOL. Her name is Akiko.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1758-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/hcia.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/hcia.mp3\">https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/hcia.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Silver Blue, who has enough&#8230;how could I ask for more?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I moved back to Virginia in 1980, I was 11, and was in love with the Chesapeake Bay, and with the sound of Karen Carpenter&#8217;s voice. Some things never change, even 32 years later. So I have a wonderful photo of the shoreline along the Chesapeake Bay: As well as a surprise. Some years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[288,605,443],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-canon","tag-chesapeake-bay","tag-rebel-t3i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}