{"id":22707,"date":"2023-07-23T13:21:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T18:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=22707"},"modified":"2023-07-23T13:22:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T18:22:18","slug":"to-be-chopin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=22707","title":{"rendered":"To Be Chopin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As I&#8217;ve said before, these days I don&#8217;t want to play Chopin as much as I want to <em>be<\/em> Chopin. But music composition is complicated, and I can&#8217;t figure it all out on my own. I tried the book route, but without anyone or anything to keep me trained on the task, I soon got distracted from it. Berklee, alas, is still too expensive. There&#8217;s only one other thing left to try: a music composition teacher. So I looked for one, and found one, and my first lesson will be on Tuesday. Wish me luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve said before, these days I don&#8217;t want to play Chopin as much as I want to be Chopin. But music composition is complicated, and I can&#8217;t figure it all out on my own. I tried the book route, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=22707\">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],"tags":[517],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22707"}],"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=22707"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22718,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22707\/revisions\/22718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}