{"id":7627,"date":"2011-09-06T18:41:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T01:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/?p=7627"},"modified":"2011-09-06T18:46:37","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T01:46:37","slug":"on-perfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/on-perfection\/","title":{"rendered":"On Perfection"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;It was like perfection was the thing that was destroying me \u2014 being totally focused on making it perfect,&#8221; she says. &#8220;And I found that when I would improvise, I didnt care about the technique. I would just put my mind outside of where I was, and just be in the music.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/09\/06\/140069246\/zoe-keating-a-symphony-unto-herself\">Zoe Keating: A Symphony Unto Herself : NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It was like perfection was the thing that was destroying me \u2014 being totally focused on making it perfect,&#8221; she says. &#8220;And I found that when I would improvise, I didnt care about the technique. I would just put my mind outside of where I was, and just be in the music.&#8221; via Zoe Keating:&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[963,207,1019],"class_list":["post-7627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookmarks","tag-inspiration","tag-music","tag-zoekeating"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}