{"id":8680,"date":"2013-02-22T00:13:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T07:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettiesworld.com\/?p=8680"},"modified":"2017-06-28T22:24:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T05:24:56","slug":"piano-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/?p=8680","title":{"rendered":"Piano Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have I mentioned how thrilled I am that one of my children is enthusiastically pursuing piano?<\/p>\n

Well, in case I haven’t, I am!<\/p>\n

Today we were able to get back on schedule with lessons, which have been postponed for a week or two due to scheduling difficulties as well as illnesses.\u00a0\u00a0 Here, Geneva is listening to her teacher, Will, play through a new piece he wants her to learn, Musette in D Major by J.S. Bach.<\/p>\n

\"20130221_pianolesson\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I got a little “new book thrill” ordering her two Czerny books after we got home:<\/p>\n

\"CzernyFingerDexterity\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \"CzernySchoolOfVelocity\"<\/a><\/p>\n

and this beautiful feline companion kept me warm for most of the hour while I sat on the couch.\u00a0 I have to admit, cats are very comfy, although they do share more of their hair than I would prefer.<\/p>\n

\"20130221_kitty\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Looking at that face, I now cannot get this song out of my head:<\/p>\n

Soft kitty,<\/a>
\nWarm kitty,<\/a>
\nLittle ball of fur.<\/a>
\nHappy kitty,<\/a>
\nSleepy kitty,<\/a>
\nPurr, purr, purr.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have I mentioned how thrilled I am that one of my children is enthusiastically pursuing piano? Well, in case I haven’t, I am! Today we were able to get back on schedule with lessons, which have been postponed for a week or two due to scheduling difficulties as well as illnesses.\u00a0\u00a0 Here, Geneva is listening […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8681,"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":[3,28,598,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-music","category-netties-world","category-piano","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8680","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=8680"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8689,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8680\/revisions\/8689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}