{"id":105902,"date":"2021-11-11T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=105902"},"modified":"2021-11-11T06:42:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T14:42:57","slug":"20211111-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20211111-01\/?p=105902","title":{"rendered":"I sort of knew that I&#8217;m a bad flute player, but I guess this proves it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In college, a friend of mine gave me his old flute to entice me into taking up the instrument. He noted, &#8220;The low notes are kind of bad on this one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And he was right. I indeed had difficulty playing the low notes with that flute. I blamed the flute.<\/p>\n<p>Fast-forward five years. I visited a relative who played the flute. I tried out her flute. I still couldn&#8217;t hit the low notes reliably.<\/p>\n<p>So all those years, it wasn&#8217;t the flute. It was me.<\/p>\n<p>I sort of knew that, but that destroyed the last shred of hope that it was just the flute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fault is in ourselves, after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-105902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The fault is in ourselves, after all.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}