{"id":801,"date":"2011-11-08T22:22:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T03:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rockwellblake.com\/blog\/?page_id=801"},"modified":"2014-11-27T19:28:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T23:28:29","slug":"is-it-about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/what-is-it-about\/is-it-about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it about ME?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Since I am the one doing the talking here, it is at least about my opinions.\u00a0 I guess I should explain myself to some extent and <a title=\"Where I come from.\" href=\"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/what-is-it-about\/is-it-about-me\/where-i-come-from\/\" target=\"_blank\">here goes<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I quit singing a few years ago and am on the next path\u00a0in my life.\u00a0 It is with great anticipation I greet each day\u00a0that offers me opportunity to be useful as well as\u00a0make our lives at home comfortable and fun.\u00a0 How I try to make our lives comfortable and fun has nothing to do with these pages or what I call useful.\u00a0However being useful is no less fun.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Teaching was always in the back of my mind.\u00a0 Oh yeah, I can\u00a0anticipate\u00a0your thoughts.\u00a0 Is it possible for a tenor to have\u00a0any attribute that could be termed a mind?\u00a0 That monster question will have to be answered by this tenors results.\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Questions like that came in handy at times when I came across certain people.\u00a0 <em>&#8220;Who can expect a tenor to remember anything?!&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0 usually got me off the hook for taking\u00a0my own direction through the music.\u00a0 Well it did fail a few notable times, but they were unimportant.\u00a0 Like I was saying&#8230;. I knew I was going to teach voice and singing from very early on.\u00a0 I\u00a0think of\u00a0my younger students as surrogate children.\u00a0\u00a0This\u00a0is also\u00a0something I anticipated long ago.\u00a0 This Blog is my way to spread the wealth that\u00a0glitters before my eyes\u00a0in Garcia&#8217;s books, and a way to offer help where I can be useful.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you are interested, just follow the blog and, God willing, I will cover everything I have to say within the limits of my allotted time and energy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you are impatient with this tenor, just use the <a title=\"Please write.\" href=\"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/please-write\/\">Please Write<\/a> page to send me\u00a0your thoughts.\u00a0 I will do my best to say something about whatever you want to talk about.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I am the one doing the talking here, it is at least about my opinions.\u00a0 I guess I should explain myself to some extent and here goes. I quit singing a few years ago and am on the next path\u00a0in my life.\u00a0 It is with great anticipation I greet each day\u00a0that offers me opportunity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":732,"parent":775,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-gallery.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-801","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2kj1l-cV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3879,"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/801\/revisions\/3879"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}