{"id":749,"date":"2017-11-15T10:12:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T17:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/?p=749"},"modified":"2018-03-30T11:00:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T17:00:48","slug":"how-it-began","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/how-it-began\/","title":{"rendered":"How It Began"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To answer a question I hear frequently, my musical journey began when I turned five years old. Since my birthday is in December, I don\u2019t remember if the present was for my birthday or for Christmas, but either way, my folks got me a toy piano. It was a tiny little wooden thing with maybe three octaves of plastic keys, but it was fantastic!<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/2017\/11\/how-it-began\/toy-piano\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-750\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-750 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/toy-piano.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I banged on it for hours, making all kinds of joyful noise, until my dad finally got tired of it and decided to show me a song. Along with being a great trumpet player, he\u2019d taught himself to play a little guitar\u2026 and as a kid, he\u2019d taken the two years of piano lessons that seem to have been mandatory for everyone in his generation.<\/p>\n<p>And what was my very first tune, you ask? \u201cYankee Doodle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Very soon after that, they bought me a real piano and got me into lessons. Rather quickly, my piano skills surpassed those of my parents, and it became clear that I might have a wee bit of talent. But it all began with a cute little toy piano.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To answer a question I hear frequently, my musical journey began when I turned five years old. Since my birthday is in December, I don\u2019t remember if the present was for my birthday or for Christmas, but either way, my<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mikeypedia","category-music-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}