{"id":1018,"date":"2006-05-13T21:22:54","date_gmt":"2006-05-14T04:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/to_play\/"},"modified":"2006-05-13T21:22:54","modified_gmt":"2006-05-14T04:22:54","slug":"to_play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/to_play\/","title":{"rendered":"To Play??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who came in recently may not know that I am a retired grade school band director.  It&#8217;s been ages since I taught, but once a band director, always a band director.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a fascinating post over at &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/talkwithdesiree.typepad.com\/desitalk\/2006\/05\/musical_influen.html\">Talk With Desiree<\/a>&#8221; that I&#8217;d like you to go read.  One of her children has been introduced to band instruments at school, and has been given the option of joining band.  The band director has given the parents a page of reasons why a student should join band.  I second all he has to say.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re contemplating letting your child join band, I&#8217;m here to tell you to go for it!  Now, go read what Desiree had to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who came in recently may not know that I am a retired grade school band director. It&#8217;s been ages since I taught, but once a band director, always a band director. There&#8217;s a fascinating post over at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/to_play\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}