{"id":1108,"date":"2006-10-11T14:55:33","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T18:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2006\/10\/mommys-little-brass-player\/"},"modified":"2010-05-03T15:06:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T20:06:45","slug":"mommys-little-brass-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2006\/10\/mommys-little-brass-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Mommy&#8217;s Little Brass Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I got out my horn to practice for tonight&#8217;s rehearsal.  I probably shouldn&#8217;t admit this, but I hadn&#8217;t practiced at all in the two weeks since the last rehearsal.  In fact, I hadn&#8217;t really played at home at all since&#8230;springtime?  Maybe?  Practicing is not my fort&eacute;.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway.  Carrie was <i>fascinated<\/i> by the horn, and kept sticking her face up into the bell and saying &#8220;Hi Mommy!&#8221; into it.  Finally she announced &#8220;Mine turn!&#8221; and tried to grab the horn away from me.  So I showed her how to buzz her lips against the mouthpiece.  Then I put the mouthpiece back into the horn and held it up to her mouth.  And she buzzed perfectly and made a really nice sounding tone come out of it!  She did it several other times in between playing with her toys, so it wasn&#8217;t an accident.<\/p>\n<p>I wish they made kid-sized horns like they have kid-sized violins.  I&#8217;d be totally willing to indulge her interest in the horn if it weren&#8217;t a) much too big for her to hold and b) much too expensive for me to replace now that we only have one income.  I wonder if they still even start kids on the horn in fourth grade anymore?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I got out my horn to practice for tonight&#8217;s rehearsal. I probably shouldn&#8217;t admit this, but I hadn&#8217;t practiced at all in the two weeks since the last rehearsal. In fact, I hadn&#8217;t really played at home at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carolyn","tag-carolyn-random-bits-of-cuteness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2384,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions\/2384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}