{"id":476,"date":"2007-10-10T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=476"},"modified":"2007-10-10T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T16:35:00","slug":"ringing-in-my-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2007\/10\/10\/ringing-in-my-ears\/","title":{"rendered":"Ringing in my Ears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog4\/trombone.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I woke up at 5:30 this morning to see if I could start downloading my pre-ordered Radiohead album <a href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=478\"><i>In Rainbows<\/i><\/a>. Sure enough, I had to fetch the email from my junk mail, but then I was able to download the 48.4MB zip file quickly while my network was still sleeping. So far the album totally ROCKS. I get to listen to it all the way to the capital this afternoon while I drive Mariah there to pick up her mom.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been picking up my guitar lately to practice a gentle little Sarabande from Bach&#8217;s first lute suite. It&#8217;s been really great to get back into practicing. It was my first year university major, but I dropped it because my fingers and hands hurt too much. My ultimate goals for the guitar are to get my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcmexaminations.org\/acadinfo\/syllabi.htm#GTR\">ARCT<\/a> and to play all of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johann_Sebastian_Bach#Lute_Suites\">Bach&#8217;s Lute Suites<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A few months ago, Blaise started playing the trombone. He has a really good embouchure and terrific tone for someone his age. He plays for a couple minutes then gets bored and switches to something else. This morning he left the middle section out and started marching around the house tooting his horn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up at 5:30 this morning to see if I could start downloading my pre-ordered Radiohead album In Rainbows. Sure enough, I had to fetch the email from my junk mail, but then I was able to download the 48.4MB zip file quickly while my network was still sleeping. So far the album totally &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2007\/10\/10\/ringing-in-my-ears\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-476","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-music","9":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}