{"id":1045,"date":"2022-01-14T15:58:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T15:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2022-01-14T15:58:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T15:58:05","slug":"my-ovation-legend-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/?p=1045","title":{"rendered":"My Ovation Legend Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi Friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just sharing a post that I recently put up on the Ovation Guitar Group on Facebook. I still call this guitar my &#8220;Canada Special&#8221; because 1867 is the year Canada became Canada!My 1867 Ovation Legend that was my main gigging and playing guitar for a few decades. I bought it at Lilo&#8217;s Music in Edmonton. It was one of the first thin backs. And at the time, one of the first acoustic guitars that could be amplified so beautifully. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was playing a lot of single bookings at that time and was always frustrated by trying to put a pick up in my other acoustic guitar (a Yamaha), so this guitar was a game-changer!I remember the day I first picked it up and brought it home! 1985? I had just started teaching full time and could not afford the $1800.00 price tag (I think it was something like that.) but I was in love and I did not care if I had to eat wieners and beans for the rest of the year. I recall trading my Fender Rhodes keyboard as part of the deal and likely a few other things, so I could just take this beauty home. It was a good day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This guitar has never let me down. It has been through so much and so many gigs. And while I do not play it much any longer, it is still wonderful and solid. Amazing. I LOVE IT, STILL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.6435-9\/150896223_10157513065340216_717664600675815205_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&amp;ccb=1-5&amp;_nc_sid=730e14&amp;_nc_ohc=gqj2gOqdsjMAX8eMLY4&amp;_nc_ht=scontent-sea1-1.xx&amp;oh=00_AT9XWkTr5OMZnnrAI9BWqbuPHi-Lw6OXb8sOL0m60pR4nw&amp;oe=62066F91\" alt=\"May be an image of one or more people, guitar, outdoors and text that says 'Marv Machura'\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Friends, Just sharing a post that I recently put up on the Ovation Guitar Group on Facebook. I still call this guitar my &#8220;Canada Special&#8221; because 1867 is the year Canada became Canada!My 1867 Ovation Legend that was my main gigging and playing guitar for a few decades. I bought it at Lilo&#8217;s Music &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/?p=1045\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Ovation Legend Guitar&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046,"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}