{"id":926,"date":"2011-01-25T21:34:54","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T02:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=926"},"modified":"2015-05-31T20:20:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T02:20:55","slug":"clapton-the-autobiograpy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=926","title":{"rendered":"Clapton: The Autobiograpy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Eric Clapton, audio book by narrated by Simon Vance<\/p>\n<p>This was an interesting book as I didn&#8217;t know much about Eric and his past (other than watching the Cream reunion concert on PBS and owning his <em>Unplugged<\/em> album).\u00c2\u00a0 It was somewhat tedious at times as Clapton listed all the performers he worked with and knew.\u00c2\u00a0 At other times it was a very compelling story.<\/p>\n<p>I was amazed at how messed up and self-absorbed he was.\u00c2\u00a0 It seems that he has managed to straighten himself out over the last twenty years or so by giving up alcohol and drugs but I am still not sure I would like to be a close friend of his.<\/p>\n<p>The book gave me a lot of insight into his world of music and, as a result, I will probably be looking at getting some of his recordings.<em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"3 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-0.gif\" alt=\"3 stars\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Eric Clapton, audio book by narrated by Simon Vance This was an interesting book as I didn&#8217;t know much about Eric and his past (other than watching the Cream reunion concert on PBS and owning his Unplugged album).\u00c2\u00a0 It <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=926\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[34,16],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-autobiography","tag-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":927,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions\/927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}