{"id":1873,"date":"2010-02-02T08:22:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T13:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2010-02-02T08:23:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T13:23:27","slug":"musical-goals-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=1873","title":{"rendered":"Musical Goals: Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goals require one to be realistic. I have been thinking about my <a title=\"Musical Goals\" href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=1840\" target=\"_self\">musical goals<\/a> now for several days, and I think I&#8217;ve come to a conclusion. Not only is my time limited, but my hands are already strained by the amount of typing I do every day. First, I should try to reduce the strain. Second, the piano requires a lot of finger movement, so I probably shouldn&#8217;t add any other instruments that do the same. This eliminates all but the dulcimer, which is played with hammers.<\/p>\n<p>New tasks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make my work station more ergonomic.<\/li>\n<li>Work on posture. Make sure hands always in a good position when typing.<\/li>\n<li>Install voice-recognition software on laptop.<\/li>\n<li>Find dulcimer stand and fix it or replace it, then display dulcimer on stand.<\/li>\n<li>Restring dulcimer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As for the other instruments, I will keep them all plus any relevant music books for now. As long as we have young kids in the family, there&#8217;s a chance the instruments may be needed. Meanwhile, I may play them if I feel like it, but I accept that I&#8217;m never going to play them as well as I would like to. I will not deliberately devote any time to them, nor will I buy any more books on how to play them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goals require one to be realistic. I have been thinking about my musical goals now for several days, and I think I&#8217;ve come to a conclusion. Not only is my time limited, but my hands are already strained by the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=1873\">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":[10,11],"tags":[187,247,517,56,249],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873"}],"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=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1875,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}