{"id":1201,"date":"2011-03-01T14:13:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T21:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettiesworld.com\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2017-06-29T10:25:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T17:25:16","slug":"piano-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/?p=1201","title":{"rendered":"Piano Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Over the past couple of weeks,<br \/>\nThe Boy<br \/>\nhas been observing his sisters enthusiastically embrace their new instruments,<br \/>\nwith a sense of bemusement,<br \/>\nthinking, as he has told me,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;What a lot of fuss about a bit of wood and wire&#8230;<br \/>\nand the <em>noise <\/em>they make&#8230; <em>eeeesh&#8230;<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He was quite adamant that he had no interest whatsoever in<br \/>\nplaying any stringed instrument himself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Good enough, I understand, and wouldn&#8217;t force something on him to which he isn&#8217;t suited.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">HOWEVER:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That was not the end of our discussions on the subject of<br \/>\nmusic lessons,<br \/>\nfor there is absolutely no denying that he has<br \/>\na musical mind,<br \/>\nand ought to pursue <em>something <\/em>as an outlet<br \/>\nfor all that music inside him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thus, I informed him today that<br \/>\nhe will begin taking piano lessons from his Oma.<br \/>\nI told him that he will thank me in years to come,<br \/>\nwhen his skills allow him to make whatever music comes into his head.<br \/>\nHe told me he was skeptical, but that he would<br \/>\nkeep an open mind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I can work with that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Here he is having his first official piano lesson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1202\" href=\"http:\/\/adoptedjoy.com\/?attachment_id=1202\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1202\" style=\"border: 10px solid black;\" title=\"20110301_131254\" src=\"http:\/\/adoptedjoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20110301_131254-450x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1203\" href=\"http:\/\/adoptedjoy.com\/?attachment_id=1203\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1203\" style=\"border: 10px solid black;\" title=\"20110301_131328\" src=\"http:\/\/adoptedjoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20110301_131328-337x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1204\" href=\"http:\/\/adoptedjoy.com\/?attachment_id=1204\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1204\" style=\"border: 10px solid black;\" title=\"20110301_131354\" src=\"http:\/\/adoptedjoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20110301_131354-450x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1205\" href=\"http:\/\/adoptedjoy.com\/?attachment_id=1205\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1205\" style=\"border: 10px solid black;\" title=\"20110301_131528\" src=\"http:\/\/adoptedjoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20110301_131528-450x264.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1206\" href=\"http:\/\/adoptedjoy.com\/?attachment_id=1206\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1206\" style=\"border: 10px solid black;\" title=\"20110301_131626\" src=\"http:\/\/adoptedjoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20110301_131626-450x335.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past couple of weeks, The Boy has been observing his sisters enthusiastically embrace their new instruments, with a sense of bemusement, thinking, as he has told me, &#8220;What a lot of fuss about a bit of wood and wire&#8230; and the noise they make&#8230; eeeesh&#8230;&#8220; He was quite adamant that he had no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,28,598],"tags":[19,31],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-music","category-netties-world","tag-family-life","tag-music-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1212,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}