{"id":251,"date":"2002-02-13T15:53:29","date_gmt":"2002-02-13T23:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=251"},"modified":"2002-02-13T15:53:29","modified_gmt":"2002-02-13T23:53:29","slug":"fourth-fret-second-string","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2002\/02\/13\/fourth-fret-second-string\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth fret, second string"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i am taking guitar lessons, and i feel like i am 7 all over again, playing two-line tunes that make chopsticks sound like a symphony. i read the notes on the page and i know how they should sound, but my fingers stumble and find the wrong string, instead.<\/p>\n<p>my hands are not used to this. they used to dance across piano keys but now they can&#8217;t even find C.<\/p>\n<p><i>this is beginning, this is learning,<\/i> i have to remind myself, and then i realize that i&#8217;m not just learning the guitar. i&#8217;m learning patience, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i am taking guitar lessons, and i feel like i am 7 all over again, playing two-line tunes that make chopsticks sound like a symphony. i read the notes on the page and i know how they should sound, but my fingers stumble and find the wrong string, instead. my hands are not used to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}