{"id":27053,"date":"2007-04-30T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/04\/30\/everyone-should-have-a-house-pianist\/"},"modified":"2007-04-30T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-04-30T10:00:01","slug":"everyone-should-have-a-house-pianist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070430-01\/?p=27053","title":{"rendered":"Everyone should have a house pianist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, a request was sent out to a social mailing list that went something like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> Hi, everybody. My girlfriend is coming to visit for a week, and she&#8217;s a pianist. Does anybody have a piano they would be willing to let her practice on while she&#8217;s here? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> I offered the piano in my living room and gave him the key to my house. I came home one day to hear the house filled with the resonant chords of a Beethoven piano sonata. You can have all the recordings you want. There&#8217;s nothing like experiencing music played live right in front of you. The music fills your body in a way recordings simply are not capable of reproducing.\n Everyone should have a house pianist.<\/p>\n<p> (The wife of one of my relatives has a degree in piano performance. He doesn&#8217;t know how good he&#8217;s got it. It&#8217;s also her birthday today. Happy birthday!) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, a request was sent out to a social mailing list that went something like this: Hi, everybody. My girlfriend is coming to visit for a week, and she&#8217;s a pianist. Does anybody have a piano they would be willing to let her practice on while she&#8217;s here? I offered the piano in my [&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-27053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Last year, a request was sent out to a social mailing list that went something like this: Hi, everybody. My girlfriend is coming to visit for a week, and she&#8217;s a pianist. Does anybody have a piano they would be willing to let her practice on while she&#8217;s here? I offered the piano in my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27053","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=27053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27053\/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=27053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}