{"id":34033,"date":"2023-02-24T14:22:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T18:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2023\/02\/24\/at-the-pops-2.html"},"modified":"2023-02-24T14:22:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T18:22:14","slug":"at-the-pops-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2023\/02\/24\/at-the-pops-2.html","title":{"rendered":"At the POPS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I just played my most satisfying-yet couple of pieces at the 180 Maiden Lane POPS. I was actually audible this time. It was only the usual Philip Glass pieces, and awkwardly, as I never took off my jacket or sat at proper posture. But it felt nice, and I think I may have connected with someone sitting near the piano. Until now I&#8217;ve avoided playing when people are sitting too close to the piano, or sitting close enough that I would interfere with their conversation. But this dude was sitting by himself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve been a little charged about the piano portion of my life since finally getting my hands on the Roland portable piano that had been sold out everywhere for the past 2 years. It was an exciting instrument. I could reasonably imagine rolling that thing out in public and thrilling the masses with somber improvisations and Schubert ditties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just played my most satisfying-yet couple of pieces at the 180 Maiden Lane POPS. I was actually audible this time. It was only the usual Philip Glass pieces, and awkwardly, as I never took off my jacket or sat at proper posture. But it felt nice, and I think I may have connected with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-8QV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}