{"id":2,"date":"2008-06-25T03:00:16","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2010-08-11T18:35:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T23:35:12","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"1. About &#8220;Making Music&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Making Music&#8221; is about my rediscovery of music and especially about the joys and challenges of <em>making<\/em> music. Everything changed when I took my first guitar lesson on Wednesday, June 25, 2008. This blog describes my ongoing efforts to learn how to play blues on electric\u00a0 guitar.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve loved listening to blues and related music since I was a teenager, but before this I never took seriously the possibility that I might be able to learn how to <em>play<\/em> blues. My biggest hope for this blog is that it will encourage others to hear the call of whatever music they love and begin learning how to make music.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Byron Leonard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Making Music&#8221; is about my rediscovery of music and especially about the joys and challenges of making music. Everything changed when I took my first guitar lesson on Wednesday, June 25, 2008. This blog describes my ongoing efforts to learn how to play blues on electric\u00a0 guitar. I&#8217;ve loved listening to blues and related music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8,"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}