{"id":7,"date":"2005-10-27T14:09:24","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T14:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2005\/10\/27\/will-i-make-it\/"},"modified":"2006-04-06T10:26:25","modified_gmt":"2006-04-06T10:26:25","slug":"will-i-make-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2005\/10\/27\/will-i-make-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting there is half the fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting Steve Thackuk at the train station this afternoon. Steve is a wonderful guitarist and twin brother of one of my best friends from my Cincinnati years, Brad Thackuk (who is a fine conductor). Steve will be soloing on this weekend&#8217;s Lancashire Chamber Orchestra Concert.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking ahead at my calendar for the next few weeks, and wondering what it&#8217;s going to be like. It&#8217;s always good to be busy, but this is a little crazy.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Steve called from the train station around 3, and I walk down to meet him with the dog- it&#8217;s beautiful fall weather. People think of Cardiff&#8217;s climate as grim, and it can be, but it&#8217;s often glorious and rarely uncomfortable, which for someone raised in the Midwest&#8217;s cycles of freezing cold and unbearable humidity and heat, is a big plus.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight is a last night of relative calm before things get going in earnest. Time for a relaxed meal courtesy of Suzanne and a few cold beverages. Will enjoy it while I can&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2005\/10\/27\/will-i-make-it\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting Steve Thackuk at the train station this afternoon. Steve is a wonderful guitarist and twin brother of one of my best friends from my Cincinnati years, Brad Thackuk (who is a fine conductor). Steve will be soloing on this weekend&#8217;s Lancashire Chamber Orchestra Concert. I&#8217;m looking ahead at my calendar for the next few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}