{"id":12,"date":"2010-06-14T03:18:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T03:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denleymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=12"},"modified":"2010-06-14T03:18:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T03:18:10","slug":"so-it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/so-it-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"So it begins&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_100\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Di-and-violin-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100\" title=\"Dianna Denley and musical friends\" src=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Di-and-violin-1-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dianna Denley and musical friends<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Greetings and welcome to my site! \u00a0I don&#8217;t profess to be brilliant at either of the instruments I play. \u00a0RSI and arthritis prevents me from even playing at weddings these days, but I do appreciate the gift I have been given and thoroughly enjoy being able to pass on the information and joy I have found in music to my students.<\/p>\n<p>I did some searching on the Web and at music stores, discovered there were some piano sites that had quite excellent free printable games, \u00a0but nothing available for violin\/string teachers. \u00a0After talking to my brilliant computer programmer of a husband, we decided to create a website that would allow other string teachers access to some of the games I play with my students and to be able to share ideas on how to play them, what concerns we might have and how to make string playing much more enjoyable for our students. \u00a0After all, isn&#8217;t that what it&#8217;s all about? \u00a0Finding the joy in music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings and welcome to my site! \u00a0I don&#8217;t profess to be brilliant at either of the instruments I play. \u00a0RSI and arthritis prevents me from even playing at weddings these days, but I do appreciate the gift I have been given and thoroughly enjoy being able to pass on the information and joy I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3384,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/3384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}