{"id":167,"date":"2014-01-03T20:37:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T20:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/?p=167"},"modified":"2025-06-16T19:40:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T19:40:24","slug":"offbeat-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Offbeat Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year Offbeat Magazine hosts an awards banquet here in New Orleans. I&#8217;m honored to be on a list with musicians that I look up to and\/or have mentored my career. The idea of winning or &#8220;beating&#8221; these artists has no appeal to me but I can&#8217;t help but to feel honored to be mentioned on the same list!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1501681_10102034271250935_1203968160_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-168 aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1501681_10102034271250935_1203968160_n.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1501681_10102034271250935_1203968160_n.jpg 960w, http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1501681_10102034271250935_1203968160_n-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like take part in the voting process you can click on the link below.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/survey.constantcontact.com\/survey\/a07e8p3kcn2hpec6b5h\/a0317t1hpzw8cib\/questions<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Or if you would like attend the event please visit:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"sHFlWN93IL\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.offbeat.com\/best-of-the-beat-awards-2013\/\"><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;&#8221; &#8212; OffBeat Magazine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.offbeat.com\/best-of-the-beat-awards-2013\/embed\/#?secret=sQsmPMX4q6#?secret=sHFlWN93IL\" data-secret=\"sHFlWN93IL\" width=\"559\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year Offbeat Magazine hosts an awards banquet here in New Orleans. I&#8217;m honored to be on a list with musicians that I look up to and\/or have mentored my career. The idea of winning or &#8220;beating&#8221; these artists has no appeal to me but I can&#8217;t help but to feel honored to be mentioned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[22,21,20],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press","tag-james-westfall","tag-offbeat-awards","tag-offbeat-awards-contemporary-jazz-artist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}