\n If you’ve never seen Mayer play blues guitar \u2014 and I say this because it’s true, even though I think superlatives are the worst \u2014 you’ve not seen the man who is objectively the most talented guitarist in popular music. Anyone who’s not in some way attracted to or impressed by his talent does not understand music. Or, or<\/em> \u2014 and it really seems this does happen \u2014 they hate him too much to hear it. They hate him personally, or they get lost in the too-often sappy lyrics, or his period of faux-gravely vocal experimentation.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Hamblin, writing for The Atlantic, about John Mayer and his excellent new album, Paradise Valley If you’ve never seen Mayer play blues guitar \u2014 and I say this because it’s true, even though I think superlatives are the worst \u2014 you’ve not seen the man who is objectively the most talented guitarist in popular […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18685,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12183\/revisions\/18685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}