{"id":1167,"date":"2019-04-20T09:40:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T13:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2020-03-01T07:08:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T12:08:29","slug":"have-you-played-your-guitar-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/?p=1167","title":{"rendered":"Have you played your guitar today?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We human beings are funny.  Or maybe it is just me.  When I&#8217;m busy working, I often wish I had more time to play guitar and write music.  But when work slows down, I seem to completely lose the desire to play.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"972\" height=\"548\" src=\"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/LesPaul.gif\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1168\" data-link=\"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/?attachment_id=1168#main\" class=\"wp-image-1168\"\/><figcaption>2000 Gibson Gary Moore signature Les Paul<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe it has to do with priorities.  Maybe it has something to do with mental stimulation.  All I know is this:  I&#8217;m looking for a job or at least a new consulting client &#8211; and my fretting fingers are rapidly losing their callouses.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I forced myself to pick up my Martin acoustic and strum it a bit yesterday after re-soaking the humidifier device in it.  At least performing humidifier maintenance forces me to open the case and look at the guitar.  That was the first time I touched any of my guitars since recording a song a month ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Creativity is not something that can be forced, but practice (exercise) is.  It is requires discipline.  That discipline seems to go right out the window when I am looking for work.  <strong><em>I&#8217;m going to have to try harder to play a guitar at least once a week.<\/em><\/strong>  Especially while I have plenty of time.  So I will try to take a deep breath&#8230;.relax&#8230;and play <em><strong>something!<\/strong><\/em>  It might even help lower my blood pressure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We human beings are funny. Or maybe it is just me. When I&#8217;m busy working, I often wish I had more time to play guitar and write music. But when work slows down, I seem to completely lose the desire to play. Maybe it has to do with priorities. Maybe it has something to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}