{"id":317,"date":"2006-02-03T18:22:38","date_gmt":"2006-02-04T02:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=301"},"modified":"2006-02-03T18:22:38","modified_gmt":"2006-02-04T02:22:38","slug":"the-joy-of-teaching-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2006\/02\/03\/the-joy-of-teaching-music\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joy of Teaching Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I started teaching guitar lessons to a handful of kids, mostly from church.  It gives me a little fun money to spend on my hobbies (like buying guitar toys).  I have two students who have been with me now for about a year and a half, both of whom were complete beginners when we started.  Today I cranked the amps up, and we were rocking on a Green Day song one of them wanted to learn.  Rocking!  What a cool feeling &#8212; here are some kids who are learning to love the instrument I love, who hopefully will know the joy of playing music all their lives, who maybe will be worship leaders somewhere someday &#8212; and I&#8217;ve had the chance to teach them how to play.  This is one of those things that leaves a legacy.  I love it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I started teaching guitar lessons to a handful of kids, mostly from church. It gives me a little fun money to spend on my hobbies (like buying guitar toys). I have two students who have been with me now for about a year and a half, both of whom were complete beginners when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography-and-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-57","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}