{"id":12219,"date":"2013-05-18T03:37:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T10:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=12219"},"modified":"2013-05-18T03:37:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T10:37:35","slug":"from-grape-picker-to-picking-notes-musician-andy-bumatay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/from-grape-picker-to-picking-notes-musician-andy-bumatay\/","title":{"rendered":"From Grape Picker to Picking Notes: Musician Andy Bumatay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/abumatay.jpg\" width=\"920\" height=\"456\" \/><br \/>\nBy C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>During the 1960s, Andy Bumatay picked grapes in the San Joaquin Valley fields near Delano, where he grew up. &#8220;It really motivated me,&#8221; said the man of Filipino ancestry, who has developed into a fantastic entertainer. &#8220;While picking grapes, I&#8217;d be thinking, \u2018I want to get out of here, get an education, become a musician and go as far as I can go.'&#8221; Now 50 years later he&#8217;s still picking&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/people\/andy-bumatay.html\">read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By C. MacDonald During the 1960s, Andy Bumatay picked grapes in the San Joaquin Valley fields near Delano, where he grew up. &#8220;It really motivated me,&#8221; said the man of Filipino ancestry, who has developed into a fantastic entertainer. &#8220;While picking grapes, I&#8217;d be thinking, \u2018I want to get out of here, get an education, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12219"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}