{"id":22,"date":"2009-06-14T11:18:55","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T17:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berky.org\/family\/?p=22"},"modified":"2019-03-25T10:13:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T16:13:12","slug":"benjamins-first-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/2009\/06\/benjamins-first-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Violin lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_135\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-135\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-135\" title=\"violin-ben\" src=\"http:\/\/berky.org\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/violin-ben-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Benjamin at his violin lesson with Meika\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/violin-ben-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/violin-ben-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/violin-ben.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benjamin at his violin lesson with Meika<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While at the music store to pick up some music Benjamin saw some little violins hanging on the wall.\u00a0 We said with the most fasinating tone of voice, as if mesmerized by the sight, &#8220;Oh mom, I want to play one of <em><strong>those<\/strong><\/em>.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s been a month since then and I&#8217;ve now got him started with violin lessons with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utvalleymusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Meika<\/a>.\u00a0 Fortunately the Lewis&#8217; had a little violin that Amanda had outgrown, so we traded for a 1\/2 size violin that has been in my closet that is a family violin.\u00a0 When James practices piano, Benjamin likes to get out the violin and practice.\u00a0 Still the basics, and he&#8217;s only 5, but still it is fun to see him do this!<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While at the music store to pick up some music Benjamin saw some little violins hanging on the wall.\u00a0 We said with the most fasinating tone of voice, as if mesmerized by the sight, &#8220;Oh mom, I want to play one of those.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s been a month since then and I&#8217;ve now got him started &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/2009\/06\/benjamins-first-post\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Violin lessons&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benjamin","tag-violin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":776,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}