{"id":1951,"date":"2010-01-19T21:08:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T05:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2010-01-19T21:08:22","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T05:08:22","slug":"stunningly-delayed-revelation-498832","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2010\/01\/19\/stunningly-delayed-revelation-498832\/","title":{"rendered":"Stunningly delayed revelation #498,832"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can play hand percussion, in a sloppy autodidactic fashion, but I&#8217;ve never learned to play a normal drum set&#8211;I can&#8217;t handle a foot pedal or do fills or anything.  I&#8217;d like to learn, but of course I don&#8217;t have anywhere to put a real kit, much less money to blow on a good one, and the noise would get me evicted.  I&#8217;ve thought about getting an electronic one that I could plug headphones into, just to learn, but those cost even more and even a collapsible one would take up too much space.<\/p>\n<p>The other night, squeezing into the living room, I finally realized that of course I do have an electronic drum kit.  It&#8217;s the big, awkward <i>drum-kit-shaped object<\/i> plugged into my Xbox for Rock Band.<\/p>\n<p>No, it&#8217;s not pressure-sensitive or anything, but it does have a practice mode and software designed specifically to help me play along to songs I like.  I am an idiot.  I need to buy a lesson book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can play hand percussion, in a sloppy autodidactic fashion, but I&#8217;ve never learned to play a normal drum set&#8211;I can&#8217;t handle a foot pedal or do fills or anything. I&#8217;d like to learn, but of course I don&#8217;t have anywhere to put a real kit, much less money to blow on a good one, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-shame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1953,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions\/1953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}