{"id":182,"date":"2013-11-03T09:48:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T04:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/?p=182"},"modified":"2013-11-03T09:48:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T04:48:51","slug":"its-not-easy-its-a-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not Easy &#8211; It&#8217;s A Process!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/wpid-IMG_7566.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Playing Piano By Ear\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/wpid-IMG_7566.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Someone asked me today, &#8220;Has it always been easy for you to play by ear?&#8221; And my answer was no. I have had to work at it for a long time to get where I am today. <\/p>\n<p>The product of what I am is the result of hours and hours of practice, performances, and lots and lots of mistakes. It&#8217;s how you learn &#8211; From a lot of mistakes! There&#8217;s nothing that life and music teaches better than mistakes. <\/p>\n<p>The thing to remember is that when to u make a mistake, don&#8217;t repeat it. And keep smiling and continue to Play It By Ear!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone asked me today, &#8220;Has it always been easy for you to play by ear?&#8221; And my answer was no. I have had to work at it for a long time to get where I am today. The product of what I am is the result of hours and hours of practice, performances, and lots &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/?p=182\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s Not Easy &#8211; It&#8217;s A Process!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}