{"id":23687,"date":"2016-12-26T16:04:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T00:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23687"},"modified":"2016-12-26T16:04:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T00:04:36","slug":"school-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/school-orchestra\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Orchestra Has Snap but No Ring!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/schooban.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>This may be the most musical time of the year\u2014with Christmas, New Year\u2019s and other Holiday songs filling the air in shopping malls, on radio and TV as well as at many special concerts throughout California. This festive, joyful music is nostalgic for many of us. It reminded me of the highlight of my early years as a precision instrumentalist, ringing the cow bell in the sixth grade symphony orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>It took quite a knack to \u201clet her ring\u201d when the maestro pointed his baton at me. Being a soloist, I was particularly proud of my notoriety as a first rate bell ringer throughout the several musical pieces our symphony performed. But, more important, my parents and neighbors were also extremely proud of my musical accomplishments. A whole group of them came to the elementary school auditorium just to hear my final ring at the last and most prestigious performance of the year<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/entertainment\/grade-school-band.html\">&#8230;read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By C. MacDonald This may be the most musical time of the year\u2014with Christmas, New Year\u2019s and other Holiday songs filling the air in shopping malls, on radio and TV as well as at many special concerts throughout California. This festive, joyful music is nostalgic for many of us. It reminded me of the highlight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23687"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}