{"id":261,"date":"2014-12-06T21:55:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T21:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnnypompo.com\/?p=261"},"modified":"2014-12-08T00:27:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T00:27:19","slug":"261","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnnypompo.com\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a young boy growing up in\u00a0South Philly<\/span>\u00a0I had a vivid imagination.<\/em>\u00a0From the time that I learned to read, books have provided me with countless hours of pleasure. The characters and the stories kept my imagination working overtime. I love to listen to a good story. And I\u2019ve always admired colorful characters. Be they real or fictitious.<\/p>\n

My father used to be a member of a private social club just up the street from his grocery store. He was also a bartender there at the\u00a0\u201cSocieti di Cosenza.\u201d<\/em><\/span>\u00a0He would take me there when I was just a little kid. \u00a05 years old. I refused to go home to bed until he let me have a glass of beer. (Just a shot glass)<\/p>\n

You see, I wanted to be like the grown up men, my father\u2019s friends, who I stared up at\u00a0in wild-eyed innocence.<\/p>\n

The men there had names like \u201c Rocky The Roofer\u201d,\u00a0\u201cFrankie No Shave\u201d<\/span>, Nicky Raymond \u201c, \u00a0\u201cJohnny Hinks\u201d ,\u00a0\u201cCutch\u201d<\/span>,\u00a0\u201cBabe\u201d<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cShank\u201d<\/span>.\u00a0 And then \u00a0\u201cChickie\u201d<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cZangie\u201d<\/span>\u00a0 would pull their motorcycles up on the pavement and walk into \u201cThe Club\u201d as it was called and smile at me, pat me on the head and hand me a ten dollar bill. \u201cTEN DOLLARS\u201d that was a lot of money for a 5 year old kid. Probably about a HUNDRED DOLLARS in today\u2019s money !<\/p>\n

The cast of characters at \u201cThe Club\u201d rivaled those of any book I would ever read.\u00a0 And when I grew up I crossed paths or became friends with a lot more characters of all stripes.<\/p>\n

I love people.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0And I am a born storyteller.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a songwriter I strive to hold a mirror up to all of the wonderful characters, stories and situations that have enriched my life. The music supports the narrative but it is first and foremost for me about the characters and their stories and experiences.<\/em><\/p>\n

So, welcome to my world.<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0I hope you enjoy my songs.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a young boy growing up in\u00a0South Philly\u00a0I had a vivid imagination.\u00a0From the time that I learned to read, books have provided me with countless hours of pleasure. The characters and the stories kept my imagination working overtime. I love to listen to a good story. And I\u2019ve always admired colorful characters. Be they real or fictitious. My father used to be a member of a private social club just up the street from his grocery store. He was also a bartender there at the\u00a0\u201cSocieti di Cosenza.\u201d\u00a0He would take me there when I was just a little kid. \u00a05 years…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnypompo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnypompo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnypompo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnypompo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnypompo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnnypompo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/johnnypompo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnypompo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnypompo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnypompo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}