{"id":3744,"date":"2020-07-22T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T11:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musedu.at\/?p=3744"},"modified":"2020-07-22T13:16:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T11:16:41","slug":"ill-take-up-a-musical-instrument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musedu.at\/en\/ill-take-up-a-musical-instrument\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll take up a musical instrument&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8230; when I&#8217;m retired!<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hear this sentence all the time. Why add another obligation to our busy lives when we are in our thirties or forties? Many people seem to believe that taking lessons and practising the piano, violin or flute takes too much time and energy. They may be afraid that it could turn out to be a lonely and frustrating activity. And yet, I chose a different path\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Curious? Read MUSEDU&#8217;s full guest article<a href=\"https:\/\/crosseyedpianist.com\/2020\/07\/20\/ill-take-up-a-musical-instrument-when-im-retired\/\"> in the CrossEyedPianist blog<\/a>!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; when I&#8217;m retired! I hear this sentence all the time. Why add another obligation to our busy lives when we are in our thirties or forties? Many people seem &#8230; <a title=\"I&#8217;ll take up a musical instrument&#8230;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/musedu.at\/en\/ill-take-up-a-musical-instrument\/\" aria-label=\"More on I&#8217;ll take up a musical instrument&#8230;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musedu.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musedu.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musedu.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musedu.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musedu.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3744"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/musedu.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3754,"href":"https:\/\/musedu.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744\/revisions\/3754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musedu.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musedu.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musedu.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musedu.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}