{"id":23997,"date":"2025-10-12T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23997"},"modified":"2025-10-11T13:14:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T18:14:33","slug":"tiny-upside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23997","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Upside"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One tiny upside of being sick is that it was a good excuse to skip my music lesson on Friday. Lately the lessons have been more stressful than fun, and I&#8217;m thinking about quitting. Weekly lessons feel like too much of a grind right now, but I&#8217;m afraid that if I quit lessons I&#8217;ll also ultimately quit composing. I think what I really want is a teacher who is closer geographically and willing to give biweekly, monthly, or perhaps even on-demand lessons. I couldn&#8217;t find one the last time I looked. That doesn&#8217;t mean no such teacher exists. I&#8217;m paid up through the first week of November. So I will give myself the rest of October to carefully consider my feelings while also looking at other options. Today I sent e-mail inquiries to a couple of local music shops. I&#8217;m not super optimistic that they&#8217;ll have what I need, but I figure they&#8217;re good places to start. Maybe they know somebody who knows somebody, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One tiny upside of being sick is that it was a good excuse to skip my music lesson on Friday. Lately the lessons have been more stressful than fun, and I&#8217;m thinking about quitting. Weekly lessons feel like too much &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23997\">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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23997"}],"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=23997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23998,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23997\/revisions\/23998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}