{"id":290,"date":"2007-06-09T07:01:38","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T12:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theholtsite.com\/?id=blog&p=290"},"modified":"2007-06-09T07:01:38","modified_gmt":"2007-06-09T12:01:38","slug":"busy-but-successful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/290\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy But Successful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The guitar presentations went well.\u00a0 Some of the duets were a bit off, and I didn&#8217;t say anything to the audience (someone introduced us), but overall it went really well.\u00a0 One of my students played a great rendition of &#8220;Iron Man&#8221; with lots of distortion.\u00a0 The students all thought it was really cool, just hoping the parents did too \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Before the show was really hectic &#8211; trying to get them all together, tuned up, dealing with broken strings, last minute practicing, getting on and off stage quickly, and handing out encouragement!\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a few pix:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogpicts\/guitarnite1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogpicts\/guitarnite2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogpicts\/guitarnite3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogpicts\/guitarnite4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogpicts\/guitarnite5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tonight Jill and I rushed off to Townsend&#8217;s 275th anniversary town fair-type of event.\u00a0 On the positive side, the show went great.\u00a0 I played well with only a few mistakes.\u00a0 We saw many of the same people\/bands that were at the last show I played in that Mike got me into.\u00a0 On the negative side, there were only about five people AT the show besides people playing.\u00a0 Tomorrow we play outside so there should be more interest.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogpicts\/townsendchad1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The guitar presentations went well.\u00a0 Some of the duets were a bit off, and I didn&#8217;t say anything to the audience (someone introduced us), but overall it went really well.\u00a0 One of my students played a great rendition of &#8220;Iron Man&#8221; with lots of distortion.\u00a0 The students all thought it was really cool, just hoping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}