{"id":683,"date":"2007-11-01T14:21:54","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T19:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/?p=683"},"modified":"2024-12-31T11:21:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T17:21:59","slug":"peter-paul-wendinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/peter-paul-wendinger\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter &#038; Paul Wendinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter &amp; Paul Wendinger<\/p>\n<p>Inducted 2007<\/p>\n<p>Peter and Paul have spent their entire lives growing up together, farming, and entertaining audiences near and far with their Polka Band. In 1962, their father purchased their first concertinas and the boys began taking lessons. Their first paid job was in 1964 for John Deere Day and received $5 for this event. The Wendinger Band made their first recording in 1968 and have over two dozen albums. Over the years, their band has been complemented with a wide variety of musical talents. In 1985 they were honored by receiving the Academy Award for Minnesota Dance Band as the Minnesota Ballroom Operators Association&#8217;s Old Tyme Band of the Year. Two years later they were nominated for the 1987 Minnesota Music Awards for their recording <em>Gold Tyme Memories<\/em> in honor of their parents golden wedding anniversary and who they credit their success to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wendingertravel.com\/wendinger-band\">Wendinger Band&#8217;s website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter &amp; Paul Wendinger Inducted 2007 Peter and Paul have spent their entire lives growing up together, farming, and entertaining audiences near and far with their Polka Band. In 1962, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,6],"tags":[293,77,65,57,45,61,301,300,302],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-30","category-inductee","tag-293","tag-concertina","tag-inductee","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-music-hall-of-fame","tag-new-ulm","tag-paul-wendinger","tag-peter-wendinger","tag-wendinger-band"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}