{"id":10020,"date":"2011-01-07T17:29:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T22:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/10020\/choice\/"},"modified":"2011-01-07T17:29:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T22:29:12","slug":"choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/10020\/choice\/","title":{"rendered":"my choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: small\">IF I go to the open mic tonight, it will likely be because I want to&#8230;I\u00a0 DO wanna play even if it means playing behind people who maybe aren&#8217;t quite as good as *I* want them to be&#8230;I guess talent is in the ear of the beholder&#8230;I&#8217;m still not sure (after all these years) if I&#8217;m any good or not&#8230;I think the anser is &#8220;a lot of the time&#8221;&#8230;I am not yet the biggest RUSH fan, but I&#8217;ve NEVER denied their musicianship&#8230;whereas some of my &#8220;friends&#8221;&#8230;it seems like on ANY level, (local, national or international) that which is mediocre is celebrated as exceptional&#8230;not always, but generally&#8230;it may not be true in REAL Jazz, or Classical Music, but it&#8217;s certainly true in Pop Music (or is that Pop Muzik?) as far as *I can tell&#8230;Different ears for different peers I guess&#8230;Priority One is to have FUN&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IF I go to the open mic tonight, it will likely be because I want to&#8230;I\u00a0 DO wanna play even if it means playing behind people who maybe aren&#8217;t quite as good as *I* want them to be&#8230;I guess talent is in the ear of the beholder&#8230;I&#8217;m still not sure (after all these years) if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}