{"id":647,"date":"2011-07-12T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=647"},"modified":"2011-07-12T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T22:45:00","slug":"practicing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"Practicing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think a lot about practicing. I think it&#8217;s a fascinating topic from at least two perspectives.   The first being, of course, the act of doing something repeatedly with the intent of improving proficiency and gaining expertise. Then there&#8217;s the more monastic approach. The activity that is an end in and of itself. Every time I pick up an instrument or even a pen, my goal is to do both. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/wpid-Photo-Jul-12-2011-1138-AM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/wpid-Photo-Jul-12-2011-1138-AM.jpg\" id=\"blogsy-1310488754198.3435\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the past few months I have taken up a writing practice. That is to say, I keep a kind of day book that is independent from my journal. In it, I write for the sake of developing ideas, thoughts, and as a way of keeping things moving.  The result is an increased desire to act on those thoughts. I make plans. Those plans are executed. Things get done. A complete win.  The other thing that comes from it is a clear head. I think better after a session of even 15 minutes. <\/p>\n<p>More writing leads to more sketches leads to more music leads to more happiness. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think a lot about practicing. I think it&#8217;s a fascinating topic from at least two perspectives. The first being, of course, the act of doing something repeatedly with the intent of improving proficiency and gaining expertise. Then there&#8217;s the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=647\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}