{"id":297,"date":"2007-07-05T21:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T01:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=297"},"modified":"2007-07-05T21:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T01:42:00","slug":"what-do-you-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"What do you want?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/tightropegirl.livejournal.com\/13198.html\">this piece of advice<\/a>.  It&#8217;s written for writers, but I think it applies to artists of all sorts.<\/p>\n<p>A music composition teacher asks his student, &#8220;Why did you put this melody here?&#8221;  The student answers, &#8220;Because it sounds good.&#8221;  The teacher replies, &#8220;Wrong answer!&#8221;  I&#8217;ve never quite been able to understand what the teacher is thinking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I came across this piece of advice. It&#8217;s written for writers, but I think it applies to artists of all sorts. A music composition teacher asks his student, &#8220;Why did you put this melody here?&#8221; The student answers, &#8220;Because it sounds good.&#8221; The teacher replies, &#8220;Wrong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-4N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}