{"id":34277,"date":"2011-10-17T11:10:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T18:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=34277"},"modified":"2011-10-17T11:14:22","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T18:14:22","slug":"allee-willis%e2%80%99-kitsch-o%e2%80%99-the-day-%e2%80%93-down-on-my-knees-before-soup-to-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis%e2%80%99-kitsch-o%e2%80%99-the-day-%e2%80%93-down-on-my-knees-before-soup-to-nuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis\u2019 Kitsch O\u2019 The Day \u2013 Down On My Knees Before Soup To Nuts"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>\n

Well, it’s the last place I ever expected to be the day before confronting the biggest professional fear in in my career<\/a>, but here I am at 7:30 am. at the knee surgeons. Yesterday afternoon I tripped on a super huge keyboard cable that shouldn’t have been lying where it was while rehearsing with Chris Price, my keyboard player, and neutroned myself flat on the floor like a slab of steel, knees, face and hands crushed with the full force of my body which thankfully had gone on a diet a couple of weeks ago so at least the blow was softened\u00a0by a few less pounds. When my “Neutron Dance”<\/a> collaborator, Danny Sembello, came over to rehearse that song and \u201cStir It Up”<\/a>, \u00a0all had to huddle around me as doctor’s orders over the phone was to stay off my legs as much as possible. Which should make for a very interesting show tomorrow night…<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Thankfully, hand therapist Martha Paterson was on her way over to my house to give me a little boost before the show, so that took some of the sting out of my aching neck, lower back, knees and hands.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Always the trooper, we continued the rehearsal while all my nerve endings were being stimulated.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Then, at 7 AM. this morning the ever faithful Prudence Fenton, a.k.a. Snappy P., picked me up and schlepped me to the knee doctor.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

With everything on my plate to do today, having Dr. Lee \u00a0probe my meniscus and all the other lumps you \u00a0can see here wasn’t one of them.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Thanks also to Dawn Smith, who came over late last night to massage the woe out of my about-to-go-on-stage-for-the-first-time-in 37-years body. \u00a0I forgot to take photos of that. \u00a0Today should be a very interesting day…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, it’s the last place I ever expected to be the day before confronting the biggest professional fear in in my career, but here I am at 7:30 am. at the knee surgeons. Yesterday afternoon I tripped on a super huge keyboard cable that shouldn’t have been lying where it was while rehearsing with Chris … read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,87,193,13,289,75,2886],"tags":[61,2877,3232,3245,2902],"class_list":["post-34277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allee-willis-soup-to-nuts-live-show","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-music","category-neutron-dance","category-songwriting","category-soup-to-nuts-party-mix-live-show","tag-allee-willis","tag-allee-willis-soup-to-nuts","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-knee-doctor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}