{"id":1,"date":"2012-12-01T22:02:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T22:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mia-musica.net\/?p=1"},"modified":"2012-12-01T20:50:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T04:50:25","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mia-musica.com\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"Hello world! + PMAA concert announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After months of bugging from my hubby, I am posting my first blog!<\/p>\n<p>He always feels that I have so many opinions; instead of unloading them onto him, I should write down what&#8217;s in my head and share my thoughts with everyone.<\/p>\n<p>I know he just wants to get some peace and quiet, but since he just spent hours last night setting up our server, I will start blogging. Writing down things is quite different than speaking: it does require more thinking and organization. This will be a good exercise for me as well.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, I will use this blog to make announcements about performances and to share my thoughts on music, teaching &amp; performing.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what I wrote last night as my husband was setting up the server:<\/p>\n<p>I am choosing this very night to start writing the blog. As a matter of fact, I am at a dress rehearsal right now for the upcoming concert tomorrow. The concert with PMAA (Peninsula Musical Arts Association) has a lot of Christmas carols and traditional songs: Winter Wonderland, Have Yourself\u00a0 a Merry Little Christmas, O Holy Night arranged by our director\/concert harpist Paul Hurst, Angel&#8217;s Carol by the English composer John Rutter, and the end is Handel&#8217;s glorious Messiah. My favorite song of the entire recital program is Randol Bass&#8217; Gloria. The whole piece is full of grandeur and excitement.\u00a0 I love the irregular rhythm, and harmony progression in this piece. The upbeat energy integrated with pastoral Sicilian makes a well-balanced way for praise.\u00a0 It&#8217;s also touching for me to see people who love music so much, yet not musicians. You don&#8217;t have to be a musician in order to make music. Just like cooking, everybody can cook! And it&#8217;s true that everybody can sing! Go PMAA!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of bugging from my hubby, I am posting my first blog! He always feels that I have so many opinions; instead of unloading them onto him, I should write down what&#8217;s in my head and share my thoughts &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mia-musica.com\/?p=1\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mia-musica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mia-musica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mia-musica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mia-musica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mia-musica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.mia-musica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.mia-musica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mia-musica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mia-musica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mia-musica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}