{"id":8694,"date":"2012-12-08T21:03:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T02:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=8694"},"modified":"2012-12-08T21:04:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T02:04:57","slug":"no-i-am-not-misbehaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/08\/no-i-am-not-misbehaving\/","title":{"rendered":"No. I am NOT misbehaving."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got together with a few other ukulele players this afternoon for a rare jam. Which made me realize it&#8217;s been far too many months since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2012\/04\/25\/my-five-month-ukulele-check-in-when-im-cleaning-windows\/\">I last shared<\/a> a uke video with you.<\/p>\n<p>As those who haven&#8217;t been recoiling from my irregular ukulele news know, I bought my first instrument on Black Friday 2012, so it&#8217;s now slightly more than twelve months since I took my first strum. I share this video to show how a year of plodding stubbornness can triumph over a complete lack of natural musical ability.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pa2Y-bZGy9M?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If there was a uke teacher in my area, I&#8217;d sign up for lessons immediately, but sadly, there is none. I&#8217;ve been mostly self-taught through YouTube videos, a month or two with a guitar teacher who tried to help me along, and two days at last summer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strathmore.org\/eventstickets\/calendar\/view.asp?id=8459\">Strathmore UkeFest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I&#8217;ve already signed up for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strathmore.org\/eventstickets\/calendar\/view.asp?id=9052\">next year&#8217;s Strathmore UkeFest<\/a>, plus this week I committed to attending the March <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgeformby.co.uk\/news\/conventions\/details.htm\">George Formby Society convention<\/a> in Blackpool.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea how much more I can learn without one-on-one face-to-face teaching &#8230; but this brings me joy, and so, I continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got together with a few other ukulele players this afternoon for a rare jam. Which made me realize it&#8217;s been far too many months since I last shared a uke video with you. As those who haven&#8217;t been recoiling from my irregular ukulele news know, I bought my first instrument on Black Friday 2012, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-8694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ukulele"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}