{"id":5157,"date":"2021-10-07T03:20:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T08:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=5157"},"modified":"2021-10-07T14:02:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T19:02:51","slug":"guy-in-practice-room-humored-by-neighbors-feeble-attempt-at-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/07\/guy-in-practice-room-humored-by-neighbors-feeble-attempt-at-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy in Practice Room Humored by Neighbor\u2019s Feeble Attempt At Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHow cute,\u201d thought Jeff Herbert, a second year living in Campus North Residential Commons, as he overheard the music coming from the room over. \u201cThey really let anybody play in these practice rooms nowadays.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was clear to Herbert that the novice pianist beside him had not taken their craft as seriously as himself\u00a0and was simply utilizing the room to either insult Mozart personally or bolster the ego of every other piano protege who happened to be waiting for the elevator &#8212; a number ranging from 10 to 50 at any given time. \u201cI mean, who do they think they are?\u201d Herbert asked when reached for comment. \u201cI could play that sonata before I could read (at age 3).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the neighboring pianist finally worked up the courage to leave the practice room, they were shocked to see Herbert standing outside, trying and failing not to look disgusted. \u201cBest of luck with that piece,\u201d he sneered. \u201cIt takes a lot of balls to play something like that around here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The now sobbing pianist declined to comment but could be heard, faintly in the distance, murmuring \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cdead grandfather\u201d and \u201cfavorite piece.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHow cute,\u201d thought Jeff Herbert, a second year living in Campus North Residential Commons, as he overheard the music coming from the room over. \u201cThey really let anybody play in these practice rooms nowadays.\u201d It was clear to Herbert that the novice pianist beside him had not taken their craft as seriously as himself\u00a0and was simply utilizing the room to either insult Mozart personally or bolster the ego of every other piano protege who happened to be waiting for the elevator &#8212; a number ranging from 10 to 50 at any given time. \u201cI mean, who do they think they are?\u201d Herbert asked when reached for comment. \u201cI could play that sonata before I could read (at age 3).\u201d When the neighboring pianist finally worked up the courage to leave the practice room, they were shocked to see Herbert standing outside, trying and failing not to look disgusted. \u201cBest of luck with that piece,\u201d he sneered. \u201cIt takes a lot of balls to play something like that around here.\u201d The now sobbing pianist declined to comment but could be heard, faintly in the distance, murmuring \u00a0\u201cdead grandfather\u201d and \u201cfavorite piece.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":5159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}