{"id":511,"date":"2007-07-23T07:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T07:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/15-hours-of-practice-this-week-yippeee\/"},"modified":"2014-07-06T14:59:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T14:59:19","slug":"15-hours-of-practice-this-week-yippeee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/15-hours-of-practice-this-week-yippeee\/","title":{"rendered":"15 hours of practice this week!!!  Yippeee!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did it!!!!  15 hours of practice this week!  Phew!  It was tough, given the hectic nature of the week, but I set my intention to not miss another opportunity to meet an important goal, and I succeeded!  I always notice IMMEDIATELY how much stronger my playing is when I practice consistently.  I&#8217;m going for it again this week!<\/p>\n<p>I am still relearning the <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?playlistId=80179095&amp;s=143441&amp;i=80179384\" target=\"_blank\"> Rachmaninoff Etude in Eb minor<\/a>, and it felt GREAT tonight!  It&#8217;s amazing how much freedom is gained when the notes are in hand thanks to repetition.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to figure out why I&#8217;ve had such a hard time implementing a serious practice regiment.  I practiced 6-8 hours per day in college, but have had the hardest time practicing even 1-2 hours in a week as a professional (embarrassing, but true.  I play all the time, but practice is an entirely different matter).  In any case, I did it this week! : >  Next on my goal list is to get back to writing.  Would be nice to get over that hindrance as well!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m exhausted&#8230;lol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did it!!!! 15 hours of practice this week! Phew! It was tough, given the hectic nature of the week, but I set my intention to not miss another opportunity to meet an important goal, and I succeeded! I always notice IMMEDIATELY how much stronger my playing is when I practice consistently. I&#8217;m going for [&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-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","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=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}