{"id":551,"date":"2011-08-04T16:54:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T22:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/?p=551"},"modified":"2011-08-04T16:56:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T22:56:06","slug":"so-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/2011\/08\/04\/so-today\/","title":{"rendered":"So Today&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I was reading a very depressing book. I know this sounds random, but stay with me. I can&#8217;t sleep after reading a book that begins and ends in tragedy, especially one with tragedy in the middle, so after reading my very depressing book, I picked up another one. This one was less depressing, just a little more random.<\/p>\n<p>Now this isn&#8217;t really relevant except for the fact that because of my depressing books, I didn&#8217;t go to sleep until very very late last night (or very very early this morning, if you want to be technical about it). After staying up freaking late, I obviously wanted to SLEEP in. However, this morning I was woken by an earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t a real earthquake- it would&#8217;ve been more interesting if it <em>had<\/em> been a real earthquake- but the Dish guys were adjusting the disk which is on the other side of my wall. The entire bed was shaking and the wall was rumbling, so before 8 this morning, I was under the impression that there was an earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>BUT WAIT! It gets better! Already tired from lack of sleep, I went to piano today. And, what do you know? Piano was canceled. The only thing is, Heather sped away right after dropping me off. Thus, my piano teacher&#8217;s husband decided to teach me about waltzes.<\/p>\n<p>Fun Waltz Facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They were most common in the 18th century<\/li>\n<li>They were made popular by Strauss, a classic composer<\/li>\n<li>They are in 3\/4 time<\/li>\n<li>The first beat of a measure is the most prominent<\/li>\n<li>They are similar to rag-time, except for the timing<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Piano Man&#8221; by Billy Joel is an example of a modern waltz (the only example in &#8220;eons&#8221; according to my surrogate instructor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes, I learned all of this in the fifteen minutes it took for Heather to turn around and get back to pick me up&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I suppose it could&#8217;ve been worse- I could&#8217;ve had to walk home&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc99ff\">~Courtney<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I was reading a very depressing book. I know this sounds random, but stay with me. I can&#8217;t sleep after reading a book that begins and ends in tragedy, especially one with tragedy in the middle, so after reading my very depressing book, I picked up another one. This one was less depressing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}