{"id":1220,"date":"2020-05-24T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2023-01-11T14:10:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T22:10:37","slug":"puppies-and-pianos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/puppies-and-pianos\/","title":{"rendered":"Puppies and Pianos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-size:28px\"><strong>Guess what?!!!<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I got a PUPPY! His name is Rhodes (as in Fender Rhodes, my favorite electric piano) and he is PERFECT. He is a Staffordshire Bull Terrier and possibly the snuggliest little guy in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musora.com\/musora-cdn\/image\/quality=85\/https:\/\/pianote.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/blog\/2020\/Puppies%20and%20Pianos\/Rhodes.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve been waiting for him for a long time- well before COVID hit. So while this wasn\u2019t a \u201cCOVID puppy\u201d he has been a wonderful source of distraction, joy, and love. He is also eating ALL of my furniture but we will get past that. Right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-size:28px\"><strong>Speaking of COVID, how are you doing?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are you playing the piano a lot? A little? Not at all? I know that I have personally struggled with a lack of motivation lately BUT I never regret sitting down at the piano. My stress starts to melt away, I find myself forgetting to think about all the things I\u2019m anxious about and being present in the sounds I am making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I would encourage you, even if you aren\u2019t up for practicing a new skill, to try and make time to sit down and just play for the love of it and notice how it impacts your mood. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And, in case you just don\u2019t feel like it, I\u2019ve got you covered because I\u2019ve performed one of my favorite uplifting and wistful songs at the end of the video. Just for you!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy practicing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the newest (and cutest) member of my family! And watch as I introduce him to all the staff at Pianote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":1231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1108],"tags":[1069],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musicianship","tag-gsotp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10628,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/10628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}