{"id":184,"date":"2004-03-30T18:49:46","date_gmt":"2004-03-30T22:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2004\/03\/i-should-be-practicing\/"},"modified":"2004-03-30T18:49:46","modified_gmt":"2004-03-30T22:49:46","slug":"i-should-be-practicing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2004\/03\/i-should-be-practicing\/","title":{"rendered":"I <i>Should<\/i> Be Practicing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m playing in a concert tomorrow night.*  We&#8217;re playing really tough music, and I&#8217;m playing first horn for most of it.  Some of it is just a bit above the comfortable upper end of my range.  I should be practicing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m knitting instead&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, what good will an hour or two of practicing do, anyway?  It&#8217;s not like cramming for a test or something.  I&#8217;m either going to hit the really high notes tomorrow night, or not.  No one will know, or care &#8211; well, at least as long as I don&#8217;t <i>try<\/i> to hit the high notes and miss!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, dear, I just remembered that half of my concert outfit is buried in the laundry bag, and if I don&#8217;t go wash it, I will have a much bigger problem than not practicing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* Victor Community Band and Chorus &#8211; Wednesday, March 31, 7 PM, Victor Intermediate School Auditorium, if you&#8217;re interested.  (Yes, that&#8217;s the same place that the June outdoor concert was moved to due to rain, for those that came to that one.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m playing in a concert tomorrow night.* We&#8217;re playing really tough music, and I&#8217;m playing first horn for most of it. Some of it is just a bit above the comfortable upper end of my range. I should be practicing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","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=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}