{"id":100,"date":"2007-07-20T03:51:10","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T07:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/guitar\/2007\/07\/20\/bass-guitar-wonderland\/"},"modified":"2011-07-14T23:12:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T03:12:49","slug":"bass-guitar-wonderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/guitar\/2007\/07\/20\/bass-guitar-wonderland\/","title":{"rendered":"Bass guitar wonderland"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>I love playing bass once in a while even though I&#8217;m ok at it. I wish that I had the technique to do some &#8220;bass slapping&#8221; but my longer finger nails prevent me from doing so. 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