{"id":678,"date":"2019-06-12T09:51:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T16:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kinderguitar.com\/?p=678"},"modified":"2019-06-12T09:51:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T16:51:13","slug":"the-gift-of-great-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kinderguitar.com\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"The Gift of Great Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, I&#8217;ve been fortunate to teach so many talented, kind, energetic, and musically curious children. I&#8217;ve also been fortunate to see many of these children who come to me when they are 5 or 6 grow into young adults with a very sophisticated sense of music. I thought I would post a picture of one of them today, who after 12+ years has gone from a wide-eyed curious little fellow to becoming a phenomenal musician and guitarist. We just had our spring concert and he ended the show playing a solo arrangement of Manuel de Falla&#8217;s La Vida Breve. An arrangement in which it seems like you need an extra several fingers to pull off!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kinderguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/image1-e1560358171136.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-679 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/kinderguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/image1-e1560358171136-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"image1\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kinderguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/image1-e1560358171136-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/kinderguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/image1-e1560358171136-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/kinderguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/image1-e1560358171136.jpeg 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, I&#8217;ve been fortunate to teach so many talented, kind, energetic, and musically curious children. I&#8217;ve also been fortunate to see many of these children who come to me when they are 5 or 6 grow into young adults with a very sophisticated sense of music. I thought I would post a picture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kinderguitar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kinderguitar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kinderguitar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kinderguitar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kinderguitar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kinderguitar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/kinderguitar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kinderguitar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kinderguitar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kinderguitar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}