{"id":63,"date":"2012-03-04T09:01:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T14:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/?p=63"},"modified":"2017-01-31T19:51:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T00:51:01","slug":"the-buffalo-free-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/2012\/03\/04\/the-buffalo-free-market\/","title":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Free Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was started with a pleasant surprise, I had woken up exactly when I&#8217;d planned to, 5am. So I got dressed, packed up my violin, and went on an exciting 4 hour drive to Buffalo, NY through car tossing winds. I don&#8217;t recommend driving through car tossing winds. It engenders a white-knuckled driving style I find quite tiresome.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I reached my destination, Buffalo&#8217;s shiny new Free Market. There, I caught up with Shea Ackers, a fellow fire spinner, one of Buffalo&#8217;s social instigators, and, in this case, a driving force behind the market. I hadn&#8217;t quite what to expect before heading out. So I was pleasantly surprised when I learned that it was a gift share. People set up their items on blankets, tapestries or directly on the floor, free for the taking. One couple came with flyers to introduce people to a company devoted to creating web sites for individuals and small businesses that were lacking a web presence. A local group that runs a Food Not Bombs provided a delightful dish to share. And a couple of us provided musical entertainment from time to time in order to keep things lively.<\/p>\n<p>Then there were the people. True or no, I tend to consider myself a bit shy. So I was quite impressed when I managed to strike up conversations with no less than a bassoonist, a ukeleli player \/ conceptual writer, an individual who had attended Rochester&#8217;s School Without Walls, and several others interesting and engaging individuals. With such an open group, I&#8217;m quite certain that the Buffalo Free Market will become a shining beacon within the local community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was started with a pleasant surprise, I had woken up exactly when I&#8217;d planned to, 5am. So I got dressed, packed up my violin, and went on an exciting 4 hour drive to Buffalo, NY through car tossing winds. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/2012\/03\/04\/the-buffalo-free-market\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}