{"id":182,"date":"2007-08-17T21:25:54","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T01:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=182"},"modified":"2007-12-09T22:23:06","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T02:23:06","slug":"instrumental-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"Instrumental Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I need a piano. I&#8217;ve been playing on an electric keyboard for about 10 years. It has full-size, weighted, touch-sensitive keys, so it plays very much like a piano, but though it can makes pianolike sounds issue from speakers, it is not an acoustic instrument. It can&#8217;t &#8220;sing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I asked my friend K&#8212;, &#8220;How much of one&#8217;s income do you suppose it is acceptable to spend on a piano?&#8221; She replied, &#8220;If I played like you, all of it.&#8221; That has to be the nicest thing that anyone has ever IMed to me. While I can&#8217;t quite spend it all, I am willing to spend what it takes to get a quality instrument. I might just wander into the piano store this weekend to see what the options are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I need a piano. I&#8217;ve been playing on an electric keyboard for about 10 years. It has full-size, weighted, touch-sensitive keys, so it plays very much like a piano, but though it can makes pianolike sounds issue from speakers, it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=182\">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":[79,56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182"}],"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=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}