{"id":13545,"date":"2018-04-01T19:44:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T00:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.superrachelzana.com\/blog\/?p=13545"},"modified":"2018-04-01T19:44:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T00:44:27","slug":"what-i-learned-in-march-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/?p=13545","title":{"rendered":"What I Learned in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13546\" src=\"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pianostamp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pianostamp.jpg 900w, https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pianostamp-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>\n<ul>\n<li>Hearing a piece of music at a concert inspired me to learn about Coventry Cathedral in England. \u00a0It has a fascinating history.<\/li>\n<li>Before my choir\u2019s requiem concert earlier this week there was special lecture given by a guest choral expert about the history of requiems. \u00a0It was really interesting to learn about the history of the requiem music, how it influenced musical history and was influenced by the changes in music throughout history. \u00a0I felt so much smarter after I left, even though the lecture was just a brief overlook.<\/li>\n<li>In this month that was crazy busy, jam packed with so many concerts and activities, I learned that a week can pass so very quickly, yet feel like it\u2019s going so very slowly when you think about all the things you are going to pack into one measly day. \u00a0At the end of the week it seems like forever since the last week, but the weeks fly by so incredibly fast.<\/li>\n<li>I learned some new photo editing techniques for color processing.<\/li>\n<li>There was a lot of fierce debate in our household this month about how to pronounce the word \u201cperpetuity.\u201d \u00a0After consulting a lot of dictionaries it was decided that I had been pronouncing it wrong in my head. \u00a0The right way sounds incredibly wrong to my ear though, and I tried to convince the rest of the household to just come on board and pronounce it my way. \u00a0I don\u2019t think I\u2019m winning.<\/li>\n<li>At the piano I am learning a Chopin waltz and a Bach fugue.<\/li>\n<li>At the cello I am learning the rest of the Romberg Sonata that I\u2019ve been working with for awhile. \u00a0I\u2019m also working on getting better at sixth and seventh and thumb position, along with that elusive vibrato that is so slowly improving.<\/li>\n<li>I picked up the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Duluths-Historic-Parks-Their-First\/dp\/1887317457\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1522549596&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=duluth+parks\" target=\"_blank\">Duluth\u2019s Historic Parks<\/a>\u00a0at the bookstore, and from reading just half of it, I learned so many fascinating things about how my favorite places in Duluth came to be, and how they\u2019ve changed throughout time. \u00a0It was a really fun read for me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hearing a piece of music at a concert inspired me to learn about Coventry Cathedral in England. \u00a0It has a fascinating history. Before my choir\u2019s requiem concert earlier this week there was special lecture given by a guest choral expert about the history of requiems. \u00a0It was really interesting to learn about the history of the requiem music, how it influenced musical history and was influenced by the changes in music throughout history. \u00a0I felt so much smarter after I left, even though the lecture was just a brief overlook. In this month that was crazy busy, jam packed with so many concerts and activities, I learned that a week can pass so very quickly, yet feel like it\u2019s going so very slowly when you think about all the things you are going to pack into one measly day. \u00a0At the end of the week it seems like forever since the last week, but the weeks fly by so incredibly fast. I learned some new photo editing techniques for color processing. There was a lot of fierce debate in our household this month about how to pronounce the word \u201cperpetuity.\u201d \u00a0After consulting a lot of dictionaries it was decided that I had been pronouncing it wrong in my head. \u00a0The right way sounds incredibly wrong to my ear though, and I tried to convince the rest of the household to just come on board and pronounce it my way. \u00a0I don\u2019t think I\u2019m winning. At the piano I am learning a Chopin waltz and a Bach fugue. At the cello I am learning the rest of the Romberg Sonata that I\u2019ve been working with for awhile. \u00a0I\u2019m also working on getting better at sixth and seventh and thumb position, along with that elusive vibrato that is so slowly improving. I picked up the book Duluth\u2019s Historic Parks\u00a0at the bookstore, and from reading just half of it, I learned so many fascinating things about how my favorite places in Duluth came to be, and how they\u2019ve changed throughout time. \u00a0It was a really fun read for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13545"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13591,"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13545\/revisions\/13591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}