{"id":2460,"date":"2021-01-09T00:46:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T00:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2021-01-09T00:46:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T00:46:41","slug":"happy-new-year-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/happy-new-year-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s only 8 days old, and 2021 is already &#8230;. PHEW!!! But I&#8217;m staying optimistic (despite all the memes about 2021 being 2020 in a bad wig&#8230;). I&#8217;m optimistic for several reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 I started the year off by learning that my song, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xIRsvamo_M0\">Human<\/a>, used in a PSA ad for the <a href=\"https:\/\/blackmalevoterproject.org\/\">Black Male Voter Project<\/a> (a non-partisan group advocating for greater enfranchisement for Black Men), had been viewed\/heard over 600,000 times! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CJclZKAglZR\/\"><strong>PSA Ad<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 I&#8217;m featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/shoutoutla.com\/meet-victoria-theodore-music-director-pianist-singer-composer-arranger-teacher\">ShoutOut LA&#8217;s Local Stories<\/a> section\u2022 I&#8217;m continuing to work on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marianmusical.com\/\">Marian Anderson Musical<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 At some point this year, a movie will be released that includes me as a cast member! More about that when I&#8217;m allowed to talk about it&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 My band, <a href=\"https:\/\/enspiritsmusic.com\/\">EnSPirits<\/a>, will finally release some music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 I used last year&#8217;s time in isolation to up the ante on my self-care and creative output. When the world opens up again, I want to be ready!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope that wherever 2021 is starting for you, that each day brings more and more joy, hope and optimism. Let&#8217;s make this our best year yet!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Love, Blessings &amp; Music,Victoria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only 8 days old, and 2021 is already &#8230;. PHEW!!! But I&#8217;m staying optimistic (despite all the memes about 2021 being 2020 in a bad wig&#8230;). I&#8217;m optimistic for several reasons: \u2022 I started the year off by learning that my song, Human, used in a PSA ad for the Black Male Voter Project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2461,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}