{"id":176,"date":"2008-05-01T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/05\/01\/first-music-night-by-the-numbers\/"},"modified":"2008-05-01T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T14:15:00","slug":"first-music-night-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/05\/01\/first-music-night-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"First music night: by the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I <a href=\"http:\/\/vwxynot.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/lament-of-classical-guitarist.html\">finally<\/a> managed to get a music night going.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/SBnUslE35JI\/AAAAAAAAAMM\/MlNQSCQNpLk\/s1600-h\/Kitties+027.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/SBnUslE35JI\/AAAAAAAAAMM\/MlNQSCQNpLk\/s400\/Kitties+027.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Busker catz will play for katnip<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#8211; Instruments: 1 classical guitar(me), 1 flute (brother-in-law&#8217;s hilarious new girlfriend)<br \/>&#8211; Bottles of beer: 1<br \/>&#8211; Bottles of wine: 1 (no, not each)<br \/>&#8211; Breakdown of time spent:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>retuning my guitar*, 5%                                                       <\/li>\n<li>bitching about BIL&#8217;s crazy ex, 70%                                                           <\/li>\n<li>telling stories about my crazy ex colleague who joined a cult, 10%                                              <\/li>\n<li>playing music, 15%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211; My ability to play the pieces that caused me no problem when I was 16, as a percentage of my anticipated ability: ~43%<br \/>&#8211; Apparent amount of interest in music displayed by my cats: 1%, and that was only until they discovered that guitar strings aren&#8217;t tasty.<\/p>\n<p>It was fun though! Hopefully it will grow as I persuade more people that ability and talent are not only unnecessary, they&#8217;re actually an impediment to enjoying the evening.<\/p>\n<p>*I swear it got more out of tune the more I drank, maybe out of sympathy. To be fair it&#8217;s got new strings on it and they&#8217;re still slipping about a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I finally managed to get a music night going. Busker catz will play for katnip &#8211; Instruments: 1 classical guitar(me), 1 flute (brother-in-law&#8217;s hilarious new girlfriend)&#8211; Bottles of beer: 1&#8211; Bottles of wine: 1 (no, not each)&#8211; Breakdown of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/05\/01\/first-music-night-by-the-numbers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,53,12,19,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drunkenness","category-furry-friends","category-music","category-personal","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}