{"id":131,"date":"2016-01-02T22:05:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T11:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=131"},"modified":"2016-01-02T22:08:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T11:08:13","slug":"a-monkey-on-his-shoulder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"A monkey on his shoulder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cellist Walter Joachim spend some time in Calcutta, India. He recalled: &#8220;I bought a monkey with which to amuse myself. We played. He was sitting on my shoulders for hours when I was practising.&#8221; Joachim practised at least one or two movements of a Bach suite. &#8220;I started my day usually with Bach or a scale, played a Bit of Bach, then worked on the technical things that I had to play. You had to be on your toes.&#8221; Source: Siblin, Eric (2009) The Cello Suites. Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, p. 123.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cellist Walter Joachim spend some time in Calcutta, India. He recalled: &#8220;I bought a monkey with which to amuse myself. We played. He was sitting on my shoulders for hours when I was practising.&#8221; Joachim practised at least one or two movements of a Bach suite. &#8220;I started my day usually with Bach or a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[66,65],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performers-and-performances","tag-cellist","tag-walter-joachim"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}