{"id":10793,"date":"2011-04-29T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2011\/04\/29\/not-quite-understanding-why-you-wash-your-hands-before-playing-the-piano\/"},"modified":"2011-04-29T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T07:00:01","slug":"not-quite-understanding-why-you-wash-your-hands-before-playing-the-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20110429-01\/?p=10793","title":{"rendered":"Not quite understanding why you wash your hands before playing the piano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My niece wanted to play my piano, and I asked her to wash her hands. She said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t need that, I have Magic Soap,&#8221; and she produced a bottle of hand sanitizer.\n Um, the purpose of washing your hands isn&#8217;t so the piano doesn&#8217;t get sick.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2007\/04\/30\/2332225.aspx\"> My piano-instructor cousin-in-law<\/a> tells me that her young students often say, &#8220;My hands are not dirty. They are just a little sticky because I just ate a chocolate muffin on my way here. I don&#8217;t think I need to wash my hands. Why do you <i>always<\/i> ask me to wash my hands before the piano lesson?&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My niece wanted to play my piano, and I asked her to wash her hands. She said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t need that, I have Magic Soap,&#8221; and she produced a bottle of hand sanitizer. Um, the purpose of washing your hands isn&#8217;t so the piano doesn&#8217;t get sick. My piano-instructor cousin-in-law tells me that her young [&hellip;]<\/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-10793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>My niece wanted to play my piano, and I asked her to wash her hands. She said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t need that, I have Magic Soap,&#8221; and she produced a bottle of hand sanitizer. Um, the purpose of washing your hands isn&#8217;t so the piano doesn&#8217;t get sick. My piano-instructor cousin-in-law tells me that her young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793","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=10793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793\/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=10793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}