{"id":53,"date":"2011-03-10T17:32:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T17:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aboutguitars.wordpress.com\/?page_id=53"},"modified":"2024-08-30T15:56:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T14:56:08","slug":"fender","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/?page_id=53","title":{"rendered":"About Fender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two iconic guitars made by Fender are the Telecaster and the Stratocaster.<\/p>\n<p>The Telecaster was\u00a0he world&#8217;s first commercially successful solid body guitar.\u00a0 First introduced as the Broadcaster in 1950, its simple and effective design allows it to cross many genres.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-875\" src=\"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Telecaster_prototype_1.png\" alt=\"Telecaster\/Broadcaster\" width=\"1280\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Telecaster_prototype_1.png 1280w, https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Telecaster_prototype_1-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Telecaster_prototype_1-768x290.png 768w, https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Telecaster_prototype_1-1024x387.png 1024w, https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Telecaster_prototype_1-800x303.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Stratocaster was introduced in 1955 and the design has been much copied over the years.\u00a0 Many guitarists have played a Stratocaster from Hank Marvin to\u00a0Yngwie Malmsteen. Also Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Jimi Hendrix and many others.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-876\" src=\"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/fender-custom-shop-63-heavy-relic-strat-vintage-white-252973.jpg\" alt=\"Stratocaster\" width=\"1200\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/fender-custom-shop-63-heavy-relic-strat-vintage-white-252973.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/fender-custom-shop-63-heavy-relic-strat-vintage-white-252973-300x105.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/fender-custom-shop-63-heavy-relic-strat-vintage-white-252973-768x269.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/fender-custom-shop-63-heavy-relic-strat-vintage-white-252973-1024x358.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/fender-custom-shop-63-heavy-relic-strat-vintage-white-252973-800x280.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Web Site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fender.com\/en-GB\/\">Fender UK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/?p=1206\">My tour of the Fender factory in 2016<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two iconic guitars made by Fender are the Telecaster and the Stratocaster. The Telecaster was\u00a0he world&#8217;s first commercially successful solid body guitar.\u00a0 First introduced as the Broadcaster in 1950, its simple and effective design allows it to cross many genres. The Stratocaster was introduced in 1955 and the design has been much copied over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-53","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P536vY-R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}