{"id":128049,"date":"2015-09-18T05:11:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T11:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/18\/flautiness.html"},"modified":"2015-09-18T10:27:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T16:27:35","slug":"flautiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/18\/flautiness.html","title":{"rendered":"Flautiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the &quot;Family&quot; Marching Band rehearsal last night, family remembers were invited down to the field to first listen to the band warming up &#8230; and then learn to actually play their instruments.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103453067516847485667\" oid=\"103453067516847485667\">Kay Hill<\/a><\/span> was a pretty good instructor. I got at least one note, perhaps two, right.<\/p>\n<p>Then we had to do three band movements. And maneuver the instruments. And hit our dots. (Fortunately, we didn&#39;t have to play at the same time.)<\/p>\n<p>Good times. And Kay seemed pretty happy with the job I did (aside from chiding about starting off on the left foot).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6195718285948859905\/6195718287976502034'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-OjnRY-zKNso\/Vfuc9OM7ExI\/AAAAAAADYqc\/MjcEsMpQ3FY\/IMG_20150916_185354773.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/EP8uktFY1iC'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the &quot;Family&quot; Marching Band rehearsal last night, family remembers were invited down to the field to first listen to the band warming up &#8230; and then learn to actually play their instruments. +Kay Hill was a pretty good instructor. I got at least one note, perhaps two, right. Then we had to do three &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/18\/flautiness.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flautiness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,713,23,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-band-school-daze","category-parenting","category-pix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_20150916_185354773.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128047,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/18\/flautiness-distaff-style.html","url_meta":{"origin":128049,"position":0},"title":"Flautiness (Distaff Style)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 18-Sep-15 5:14am","format":false,"excerpt":"After the grups got to pretend to be band members at the Family Band Rehearsal last night, we got to stand in the close sidelines to watch the young'uns play. 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