{"id":51,"date":"2011-04-15T18:07:51","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T18:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimsharmonica.posterous.com\/you-gotta-practice"},"modified":"2017-03-10T14:14:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T22:14:49","slug":"you-gotta-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/you-gotta-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"You Gotta Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-51-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/audio\/harp5.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/audio\/harp5.mp3\">https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/audio\/harp5.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>There&#8217;s a honeymoon phase whenever you try something new. The first few weeks you&#8217;re enamored and then you realize that this is a long term commitment. It&#8217;s easy to drop the ball. It&#8217;s hard to maintain dedication once the novelty has worn off. The more you learn the more you realize how much more there is to learn. It&#8217;s daunting.<\/p>\n<p>I was sick for the last two or three weeks. So, I laid off playing the harmonica. I&#8217;m finding it hard to get back into it. My advice &#8211; you have to practice every day. Just do it. No excuses.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m putting this one up as a reminder to myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a honeymoon phase whenever you try something new. The first few weeks you&#8217;re enamored and then you realize that this is a long term commitment. It&#8217;s easy to drop the ball. It&#8217;s hard to maintain dedication once the novelty has worn off. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-harmonica","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3xTIN-P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1680,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}