{"id":15557,"date":"2019-03-07T19:12:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T23:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=15557"},"modified":"2019-03-07T19:12:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T23:12:12","slug":"decisions-decisions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=15557","title":{"rendered":"Decisions, Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My children have unexpectedly been offered the chance to take music lessons for a reasonable price. Though reasonable, it&#8217;s far from cheap. So I keep thinking to myself, &#8220;Do I really want to leave my children&#8217;s musical education in a stranger&#8217;s hands? And do I really want to spend THAT much money on something that I could do myself?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the answer to both questions is no, and yes. I really don&#8217;t think I should leave their musical education in someone else&#8217;s hands, but I know damned well that, if left in my hands, they&#8217;ll get no musical education at all. What I really want, I guess, is for my personal honesty to wipe away my feelings of personal guilt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it never does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My children have unexpectedly been offered the chance to take music lessons for a reasonable price. Though reasonable, it&#8217;s far from cheap. So I keep thinking to myself, &#8220;Do I really want to leave my children&#8217;s musical education in a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=15557\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15557"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15558,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15557\/revisions\/15558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}