{"id":23101,"date":"2020-09-17T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/charlesmusic.com\/?p=23101"},"modified":"2020-09-17T10:01:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T09:01:10","slug":"music-is-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/charlesmusic.com\/stage\/music-is-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Is My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Did you fall in love with oboe or bassoon as I did? I&#8217;ve been playing since I was in junior high school. It was and is who I am: a person; a musician; a double reed player.<br \/>I am a performing musician &#8211; playing is in my blood.<br \/>As a young conservatory musician, I worked a day job part-time, as most of us do at that point in our lives. I lucked into working at a double reed store in NYC. More luck &#8211; the owner retired and I got to continue the store. I moved it all to my little apartment in Brooklyn. I discovered that teaching and supplying and supporting double reed playing was also my way in this world. And that&#8217;s how Charles Double Reed Company began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/charlesmusic.com\/stage\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/brian-149-160.jpg\" alt=\"Brian Charles\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you fall in love with oboe or bassoon as I did? I&#8217;ve been playing since I was in junior high school. It was and is who I am: a person; a musician; a double reed player.I am a performing musician &#8211; playing is in my blood.As a young conservatory musician, I worked a day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yXYD-60B","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlesmusic.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlesmusic.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlesmusic.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlesmusic.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlesmusic.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/charlesmusic.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23103,"href":"https:\/\/charlesmusic.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23101\/revisions\/23103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlesmusic.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlesmusic.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlesmusic.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}