{"id":24007,"date":"2025-10-20T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=24007"},"modified":"2025-10-19T10:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T15:39:10","slug":"taking-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=24007","title":{"rendered":"Taking a Break"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I broke up with my music boyfriend last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is, I ended my music lessons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d intended to wait until the end of October, but by Friday I felt 100% certain about what I wanted to do. Plus, I thought it would be nice to give my teacher a few weeks notice so that he could arrange for a new student to replace me. Unexpectedly, he said he&#8217;s so busy preparing for his upcoming concerts that he wouldn&#8217;t mind some extra time in his schedule, and he offered me a refund on the three lessons he owed me. I accepted. We parted amicably, with him saying he&#8217;d be happy to teach me again and me saying I&#8217;d call him if I needed his help again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am concerned that I&#8217;ll give up on composing now that I don&#8217;t have lessons to keep me focused. I&#8217;d hoped to find a local teacher who would be more flexible timewise. Neither of the queries I sent out last week led to anything. Too bad. On the other hand, I really do need a break, so for now I will take one and be grateful that I have a little extra money in my pocket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I broke up with my music boyfriend last week. That is, I ended my music lessons. I&#8217;d intended to wait until the end of October, but by Friday I felt 100% certain about what I wanted to do. Plus, I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=24007\">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":[10,11,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24007"}],"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=24007"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24012,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24007\/revisions\/24012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}