{"id":46074,"date":"2014-10-26T17:13:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T23:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/26\/the-joy-of-being-a-band-parent.html"},"modified":"2014-10-29T07:45:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T13:45:47","slug":"the-joy-of-being-a-band-parent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/26\/the-joy-of-being-a-band-parent.html","title":{"rendered":"The joy of being a band parent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone else talking about the same thing.  And I&#39;m quite familiar (from having seen the performance she describes multiple times) with the band her son is in (which was nicely choreographed and had great music selections).<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ll add this &#8212; one of the reasons Margie and I volunteer to assist at performances is because, if we&#39;re going to get up that early anyway and feel like we should be at the show, it&#39;s a lot more fun (and work, and exercise) to be working in support of the band  (pushing equipment, helping them get tidied up, making sure they have water, etc.) than to sit in the bleachers for hours. It helps us meet a lot of Kay&#39;s cohort, too, who are damned good kids.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t Stan)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/voices\/ci_26793246\/joy-being-band-parent'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/HpZyPnxQCGqAmNf5KGPty51yB4FsPNn__vzBphKVO_os3k50HDTcSPQpzQj2iZvRrUgJWBNDYGxwTXd5KWxdcTRrcGZxPxD_F_SOCp7KKRQVzRGOXwKhi9lvSneYo4ZdQETBDTQQ2uI=w506-h303-p' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/voices\/ci_26793246\/joy-being-band-parent'>The joy of being a band parent<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nBeing a band parent used to be easier. In elementary school, it was mostly listening to a fifth-grader attempting to coax sound &mdash; any sound &mdash;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/az19jRM2Hxz'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone else talking about the same thing. And I&#39;m quite familiar (from having seen the performance she describes multiple times) with the band her son is in (which was nicely choreographed and had great music selections). I&#39;ll add this &#8212; one of the reasons Margie and I volunteer to assist at performances is because, if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/26\/the-joy-of-being-a-band-parent.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The joy of being a band parent&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-band-school-daze"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128045,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/17\/band-stadium-practice.html","url_meta":{"origin":46074,"position":0},"title":"Band Stadium Practice","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 17-Sep-15 11:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So this one's not all that interesting to the genreral public -- mainly posted for family and friends who want to see +Kay Hill doing band practice stuff (until my phone ran out of juice). \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In Album Arapahoe Band Practice View on Google+","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_20150916_171623613_HDR.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_20150916_171623613_HDR.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_20150916_171623613_HDR.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":48088,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/13\/band-of-er-band-members.html","url_meta":{"origin":46074,"position":1},"title":"Band of &#8230; er, Band Members","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 13-Nov-14 9:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"We went to the Band Award Supper tonight. +Kay Hill (on the right, here with the flute section), got both the \"Aye, Sir\" award for being diligently helpful and the \"Most Improved Woodwind\" award. 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