{"id":2576,"date":"2012-07-02T22:42:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T22:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2012-07-02T22:42:43","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T22:42:43","slug":"further-friend-pimpage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/02\/further-friend-pimpage\/","title":{"rendered":"Further Friend Pimpage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following in the path of the previous entry, I thought I&#8217;d quickly note some recent accomplishments by a couple of my other friends:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve known Mike Gillilan since our days tearing tickets and running 35mm film projectors together at good ol&#8217; Movies 7 (later Movies 9, after the addition of a couple more auditoriums), way back in the early &#8217;90s. He was an accomplished photographer even then &#8212; he took some of my favorite pics of myself from that time period, several of which I have hanging on the wall of my living room &#8212; and now he&#8217;s teetering on the razor&#8217;s edge of finally going pro. He&#8217;s particularly interested in high-performance cars and Le Mans-style racing, and he&#8217;s currently a contributor to a motorsports blog called <a href=\"http:\/\/dailyderbi.com\/\">The Daily Derbi<\/a>. Got all that? Okay, well, last week, Mike posted <a href=\"http:\/\/dailyderbi.com\/weekend-wallpaper-pirelli-world-challenge-tcb-45-honda-performance-development-honda-fit\/\">an image<\/a> he took of a Honda Fit doing its thing in the Pirelli World Challenge to the Daily Derbi&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/dailyderbi.com\/?s=Weekend+Wallpaper\">Weekend Wallpaper feature<\/a> (Mike&#8217;s regular gig with the Derbi). Not long after that, the official Honda racing team, a.k.a. Honda Performance Development, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HondaRacing_HPD\/status\/217305448762703873\">tweeted<\/a> a link to Mike&#8217;s photo. Way to get noticed, man!<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile, another friend, Melissa Warner, is part of a musical group called The Royal We (official Facebook page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/The-Royal-We-music\/109775205724377\">here<\/a>). With an acoustic sound built on the vocal harmonies of Melissa and bandmate Stacey Board, they&#8217;re somewhat reminiscent of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shawncolvin.com\/\">Shawn Colvin<\/a>, and they&#8217;ve now got a six-song EP available for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdbaby.com\/cd\/theroyalwe3\">download<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdbaby.com\/\">CD Baby<\/a>. Go test drive a couple of tracks and see what you think!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That is all for now. Man, I really need to get cracking and do something worth pimping for myself&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following in the path of the previous entry, I thought I&#8217;d quickly note some recent accomplishments by a couple of my other friends: I&#8217;ve known Mike Gillilan since our days tearing tickets and running 35mm film projectors together at good ol&#8217; Movies 7 (later Movies 9, after the addition of a couple more auditoriums), way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}