{"id":26016,"date":"2009-02-11T09:29:59","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T09:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/02\/11\/music-and-me-the-early-years\/"},"modified":"2009-02-11T09:29:59","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T09:29:59","slug":"music-and-me-the-early-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/11\/music-and-me-the-early-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Music and Me: The Early Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am the least musical person I&#8217;ve ever met who is still alive.  Of course, most nonmusical people don&#8217;t go around talking about it, so I probably actually know more tone deaf, talentless people than that.  It is strange, though.  I should be musical.  My mother sang semiprofessionally, doing radio in the pre-WWII days before they had things on tape (commercials and stuff).  My oldest sister is known as Lightning Fingers Liz, owing to her prowess with the mandolin.  My brother had a rock band from something like 1968 through 1990-something and is quite talented with the lead guitar.  My other sister takes the cake, though.  She has a couple of PhD&#8217;s in music or related topics, is an accomplished composer, and has learned&#8211;to at least a reasonable level of competence&#8211;one instrument in each known and extant class of musical instrument.  (This required her to learn the bagpipes and the didgeridoo, because they are almost exclusive in their own classes.)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/quichemoraine.com\/2009\/02\/music-and-me-the-early-years\/\"><br \/>\n&#8230;  read the rest here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am the least musical person I&#8217;ve ever met who is still alive. Of course, most nonmusical people don&#8217;t go around talking about it, so I probably actually know more tone deaf, talentless people than that. It is strange, though. I should be musical. My mother sang semiprofessionally, doing radio in the pre-WWII days before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/11\/music-and-me-the-early-years\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Music and Me: The Early Years<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6LC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}