{"id":533,"date":"2012-11-26T21:59:46","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T03:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=533"},"modified":"2012-11-26T21:59:46","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T03:59:46","slug":"39-playing-piano-40-days-of-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"#39: Playing Piano (40 Days of Fun)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_1272.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-534\" title=\"IMG_1272\" src=\"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_1272-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"my piano\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_1272-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_1272-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_1272-588x392.jpg 588w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I love to play piano.\u00a0 When I was in high school and college I would play the piano almost every day.\u00a0 It was like therapy for me, a stress release.\u00a0 I could let the music &amp; my emotions intertwine as my hands danced across the keys and I poured myself into the playing.\u00a0 It was so good.<\/p>\n<p>I still play piano but it comes in spurts and I&#8217;ll usually only play for half an hour.\u00a0 Sometimes I&#8217;ll play a couple of times in a week, sometimes I&#8217;ll go weeks before I play anything.\u00a0 It&#8217;s getting better though &#8211; I&#8217;m playing more now that I used to.\u00a0 Part of the problem in the past was as soon as I sat down to play at the piano one of my children would come up and start playing with me, which meant I didn&#8217;t really end up getting to play &#8211; my kids just took over.\u00a0 My older boys don&#8217;t bother me anymore and my daughter likes to dance while I&#8217;m playing so its better now.<\/p>\n<p>Today I sat down at the piano and played for a couple of hours, just for the fun of it.\u00a0 I played songs I hadn&#8217;t played in years, including playing through all the songs of the <a title=\"Les Miserables\" href=\"http:\/\/www.halleonard.com\/product\/viewproduct.do?itemid=360286&amp;lid=0&amp;keywords=00360286&amp;subsiteid=3&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Les Miserables&#8221;<\/a> songbook.\u00a0 It was so much fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love to play piano.\u00a0 When I was in high school and college I would play the piano almost every day.\u00a0 It was like therapy [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=533\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}