{"id":23041,"date":"2024-03-02T11:58:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T16:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23041"},"modified":"2024-03-03T13:23:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T18:23:20","slug":"3-2-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23041","title":{"rendered":"3\/2\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>In addition to my weekly music lessons and composition assignments, I&#8217;ve been reading music theory books and websites, listening to recordings, and watching various music-related YouTube videos. I mentioned some things I&#8217;d seen online to my teacher, and he said, &#8220;You consume a lot of media, don&#8217;t you?&#8221; I don&#8217;t normally group music and literature in the &#8220;media&#8221; category, and I don&#8217;t (usually) spend much time on social media or the news anymore, so I had considered my overall media consumption to be down. But he&#8217;s right. I do still consume a lot of media, and I probably should cut back, at least on the ones that I use my eyes for.<\/li><li>Speaking of books, I have an idea for a novel. Since I never finished any of my previous attempts, and because I&#8217;m out of practice writing, I&#8217;m not feeling much inclined to start on a new one. But the idea is tempting&#8230;.<\/li><li>I only just took down the Christmas tree last week. The tree was up for over two months. That might have been the longest stretch ever, though I&#8217;m not sure, because there was at least one other year that the tree stayed up well into February. All I know is that it&#8217;s symptomatic of a persistent bad mood. I&#8217;m hoping that the spring season will perk me up some.<\/li><li>Speaking of spring, the daffodils are starting to come up, and it&#8217;s lovely to see green returning to the world.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to my weekly music lessons and composition assignments, I&#8217;ve been reading music theory books and websites, listening to recordings, and watching various music-related YouTube videos. I mentioned some things I&#8217;d seen online to my teacher, and he said, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23041\">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":[11,1],"tags":[517,170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23041"}],"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=23041"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23047,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23041\/revisions\/23047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}