{"id":25651,"date":"2025-12-03T19:14:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=25651"},"modified":"2025-12-03T19:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:14:11","slug":"3am-fail-13-honest-abe-black-iron-snare-under-the-mic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=25651","title":{"rendered":"3am Fail &#8211; 13&#8243; Honest Abe black iron Snare under the mic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Getting this 13&#8243; Honest Abe black iron beast of a snare under the mic for the 1st time.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@EricBeam1313\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AtpAbiKRlV8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting this 13&#8243; Honest Abe black iron beast of a snare under the mic for&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=25651\">Read the post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">3am Fail &#8211; 13&#8243; Honest Abe black iron Snare under the mic<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everything-else","excerpt","zoom","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3am-fail-13-honest-abe-black-iro.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24868,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24868","url_meta":{"origin":25651,"position":0},"title":"Honest Abe Snare &#038; Noble and Cooley Union go crunch","author":"Eric","date":"September 10, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, it's an experiment with new things kind of day. 1st time putting this @honestabeinstrumentcompany aluminum and @nobleandcooley under the mic. 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