{"id":16707,"date":"2020-07-04T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/?p=16707"},"modified":"2020-07-04T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T19:08:00","slug":"blind-tom-wiggins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/blind-tom-wiggins\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind Tom Wiggins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a class=\"dt-pswp-item\" href=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/blind-tom.png\" data-dt-img-description=\"\" data-large_image_width=\"532\" data-large_image_height=\"904\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16708\" src=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/blind-tom.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/blind-tom.png 532w, https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/blind-tom-177x300.png 177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>See New York Times article about composers of African descent. Slave Blind Tom Wiggins became an internationally recognized performer. By 1868 Tom toured the United States and Canada. He earned an average of $50,000 annually for the Bethune family in Virginia.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/03\/arts\/music\/black-composers-classical-music.html?fbclid=IwAR3xX7mA4oaJ4G3HJrnLLxjeqFcpZBkVWqY91RdMl07O5DxKwXii76bE7xw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/03\/arts\/music\/black-composers-classical-music.html?fbclid%3DIwAR3xX7mA4oaJ4G3HJrnLLxjeqFcpZBkVWqY91RdMl07O5DxKwXii76bE7xw&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1593975763739000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH2Rpw_27ODMmr2J4JvazyEwCkPYQ\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/<wbr \/>07\/03\/arts\/music\/black-<wbr \/>composers-classical-music.<wbr \/>html?fbclid=<wbr \/>IwAR3xX7mA4oaJ4G3HJrnLLxjeqFcp<wbr \/>ZBkVWqY91RdMl07O5DxKwXii76bE7x<wbr \/>w<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See New York Times article about composers of African descent. Slave Blind Tom Wiggins became an internationally recognized performer. By 1868 Tom toured the United States and Canada. He earned an average of $50,000 annually for the Bethune family in Virginia. https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/03\/arts\/music\/black-composers-classical-music.html?fbclid=IwAR3xX7mA4oaJ4G3HJrnLLxjeqFcpZBkVWqY91RdMl07O5DxKwXii76bE7xw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[417,418],"class_list":["post-16707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musicuntold-blog","tag-blind-tom-wiggins","tag-composers-of-african-descent","category-97","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16710,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16707\/revisions\/16710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}