{"id":260,"date":"2012-08-21T15:34:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T15:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ilovethepiano.co.uk\/?p=260"},"modified":"2012-08-21T15:34:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T15:34:03","slug":"can-anyone-learn-to-play-the-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ilovethepiano.co.uk\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"Can ANYONE learn to play the piano?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" title=\"baby-grand-piano (white)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ilovethepiano.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/baby-grand1-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"109\" \/><strong>Of course!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I truly believe you can achieve\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">anything<\/span>\u00a0you set your mind to. This is true for everything in your life, not just piano playing.<\/p>\n<p>I was recently heavily criticised for suggesting\u00a0anyone\u00a0can learn to play the piano regardless of perceived talent or ability. My comments, and the accusations levied against me can be read here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/classicalmel.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/17\/how-long-does-it-take-to-learn-to-play-the-piano-vlog-number-4\/\">http:\/\/classicalmel.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/17\/how-long-does-it-take-to-learn-to-play-the-piano-vlog-number-4\/<\/a>. Narrowmindedness and musical snobbery is still rearing its head today and I want to\u00a0dispel the myth that learning a musical instrument is only available to the select few.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve always wanted to learn to play the piano but fear you wouldn&#8217;t be able to do it, please <a title=\"Contact\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ilovethepiano.co.uk\/?page_id=12\">get in touch<\/a> and let me put your mind at rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course! I truly believe you can achieve\u00a0anything\u00a0you set your mind to. This is true for everything in your life,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,34,30,33,31,35,39,40,11,36,32,41,37,38],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ability","tag-adult","tag-anyone","tag-anyone-can-play-the-piano","tag-can","tag-learner","tag-never-too-late","tag-past-it","tag-piano","tag-pianoforte","tag-play","tag-talent","tag-taught","tag-too-late"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ilovethepiano.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ilovethepiano.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ilovethepiano.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ilovethepiano.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ilovethepiano.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.ilovethepiano.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"http:\/\/www.ilovethepiano.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ilovethepiano.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ilovethepiano.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ilovethepiano.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}