{"id":13411,"date":"2023-02-04T10:17:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T14:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/?p=13411"},"modified":"2023-02-04T14:48:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T18:48:16","slug":"trombone-shorty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/trombone-shorty\/","title":{"rendered":"Trombone Shorty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Troy Andrews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8221;Who&#8217;s that playing out there?&#8221; Bo Diddley asked the New Orleans crowd. It was a small child who&#8217;d been nicknamed <em>Trombone Shorty<\/em> because his trombone was twice as large as he was. Trombone Shorty was lifted in the air and carried through the audience until he reached the stage with Bo Diddley. He has been onstage ever since. Hailing from the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans, where music always floated in the air, Troy <strong><em>Trombone Shorty<\/em><\/strong> Andrews didn&#8217;t always have the money to buy an instrument, but he did have the dream to play music. This is the story of how he made his dream take flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Order online:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abramsbooks.com\/product\/trombone-shorty_9781419714658\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trombone Shorty<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"&#039;Trombone Shorty&#039; read by Angela Bassett\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QitquEL48Co?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From environmentalist and bestselling author Bill McKibben comes a hopeful, inspiring picture book celebrating the power of human cooperation and the beauty of life on Earth, beautifully illustrated by artist Stevie Lewis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-fullwidth.php","format":"image","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[83],"class_list":{"0":"post-13411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-image","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-children","8":"tag-black-history","9":"post_format-post-format-image"},"aioseo_notices":[],"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13549,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13411\/revisions\/13549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}