{"id":2248,"date":"2012-09-28T09:41:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T13:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=2248"},"modified":"2012-09-28T09:52:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T13:52:26","slug":"music-to-write-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/birthmarked\/music-to-write-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Music to Write By"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2249\" title=\"Music\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Music.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"178\" \/>What happens to all those music lessons?\u00a0 When I was in high school, I took piano, violin, and voice lessons.\u00a0 I sang in my school chorus, the madrigal singers, the school musicals, and recitals.\u00a0 I played my violin in the school orchestra and in the Macalester College Symphony down the street. My family sang around the piano whenever we had the cousins over, from Verdi and Handel, through Berlin and Rogers and Hammerstein, and onto the Beatles and Webber and Rice\u2019s <em>Jesus Christ Superstar<\/em>.\u00a0 I would fall asleep with my radio on, turned very low so my parents wouldn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>I think they knew.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/promised-2\/promised-blog-tour\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2216\" title=\"PromBlogTour100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/PromBlogTour100.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a>It never occurred to me to turn music into my job.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t dream of fame or a career as a singer.\u00a0 I just loved the music.\u00a0 I still do.\u00a0 So when Jaime over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twochicksonbooks.com\/2012\/09\/blog-tour-promised-by-caragh-obrien-and.html\" target=\"_blank\">Two Chicks on Books<\/a> asked me if music played a roll in writing the <em>Promised<\/em> trilogy, the answer was obviously yes.\u00a0 Drop by her site to learn more and see how she compiled a list of Youtube videos to match up with my Grooveshark\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/grooveshark.com\/#!\/playlist\/Promised+The+Writing+List\/76839997\" target=\"_blank\">playlist<\/a> of songs to write by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens to all those music lessons?\u00a0 When I was in high school, I took piano, violin, and voice lessons.\u00a0 I sang in my school chorus, the madrigal singers, the school musicals, and recitals.\u00a0 I played my violin in the school orchestra and in the Macalester College Symphony down the street. My family sang around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,147],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-2248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthmarked","category-promised-2","tag-promised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2248"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions\/2257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}