{"id":71,"date":"2010-01-02T17:02:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T01:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2010-01-02T17:16:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T01:16:07","slug":"practicing-trombone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/practicing-trombone\/","title":{"rendered":"practicing trombone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in about 11 years I decided to start practicing trombone again.  At one point I was really serious about the trombone, practicing for a few hours a day&#8230; everyday.  It&#8217;s really relaxing when done properly, almost a meditation that you can feel throughout the core of your body.  I felt the incredible warmth that comes from the combination of deep breathing, vibration, and focus on sound.  I&#8217;m really happy about adding this back into my life even just for daily long tones.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually I&#8217;d it would be nice to get to the point of playing duets again and I found out a few weeks ago a friend of mine, Alexander, is a classically trained tuba player, so maybe that&#8217;s something to look forward to once I&#8217;m back in shape.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of getting into shape, I took it slowly today.  Buzzing with and without a mouthpiece to try and overcome the common crutch of too much lip pressure.  I can feel how weak my lips are, they kind of waver periodically and hopefully with time my abdomin and lip muscles will strengthen, relax, and create a steady tone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in about 11 years I decided to start practicing trombone again. At one point I was really serious about the trombone, practicing for a few hours a day&#8230; everyday. It&#8217;s really relaxing when done properly, almost &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/practicing-trombone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-trombone","tag-trombone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}