{"id":1888,"date":"2010-02-04T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2010-02-02T19:12:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T00:12:28","slug":"musical-goals-part-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=1888","title":{"rendered":"Musical Goals: Part IV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What, you thought I was done with my musical goals? Sorry, no. I&#8217;ve got more.<\/p>\n<p>I want to write songs.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I should rephrase that. You see, I write songs all the time. I make up little ditties to sing to Marshall. I improvise tunes on the piano. I write down catchy titles and bits of verses in notebooks. I just don&#8217;t <em>finish<\/em> them. So let me try again.<\/p>\n<p>I want to write complete songs and record them in some way.<\/p>\n<p>Notice that I didn&#8217;t say, &#8220;I want to write great songs and become famous,&#8221; because &#8220;great&#8221; is subjective and &#8220;famous&#8221; is way outside my sphere of control. I just want to accomplish something creative. That&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s what I want, but how do I make it a reality? What is a reasonable goal to set? Should I just try to do one song or should I try to do several? Should I set a deadline?<\/p>\n<p>I still have more thinking to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What, you thought I was done with my musical goals? Sorry, no. I&#8217;ve got more. I want to write songs. Perhaps I should rephrase that. You see, I write songs all the time. I make up little ditties to sing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=1888\">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":[11],"tags":[247,251],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888"}],"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=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions\/1891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}