{"id":526,"date":"2006-09-29T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T07:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/playing-with-arlington-houston\/"},"modified":"2006-09-29T07:44:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T07:44:00","slug":"playing-with-arlington-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/playing-with-arlington-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing with Arlington Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I played at the Downtown restaurant with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arlingtonhouston.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arlington Houston<\/a> tonight.  This was the first straight ahead jazz gig that I&#8217;ve had since I started practicing so much more.  I didn&#8217;t know most of the tunes, but thanks to my sight reading ability, and to the fact that I listened to the tunes during the day of the gig, I did a great job!  I felt confident, free and very connected to the music.  I feel like I was given an insight into what I&#8217;m capable of if I continue to practice at the pace I&#8217;d set.  This performance was so much better than what I had been doing, and that&#8217;s after only a few weeks of focused, extended practice.  I can only imagine where I&#8217;d be if I kept up a 15+ hour regiment for over a year!  Wow!  Wish me luck&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I played at the Downtown restaurant with Arlington Houston tonight. This was the first straight ahead jazz gig that I&#8217;ve had since I started practicing so much more. I didn&#8217;t know most of the tunes, but thanks to my sight reading ability, and to the fact that I listened to the tunes during the day [&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-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","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=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}