{"id":13225,"date":"2014-02-11T16:35:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T00:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=13225"},"modified":"2014-05-29T16:20:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T23:20:27","slug":"seven-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/11\/seven-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"seven years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/12468896665_0e1cc5280b_z.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13364\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/11\/seven-years-ago\/12468896665_0e1cc5280b_z\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/12468896665_0e1cc5280b_z.jpg?fit=640%2C483&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,483\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"12468896665_0e1cc5280b_z\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/12468896665_0e1cc5280b_z.jpg?fit=500%2C377&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-13364\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/12468896665_0e1cc5280b_z-500x377.jpg?resize=500%2C377\" alt=\"12468896665_0e1cc5280b_z\" width=\"500\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/12468896665_0e1cc5280b_z.jpg?resize=500%2C377&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/12468896665_0e1cc5280b_z.jpg?resize=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/12468896665_0e1cc5280b_z.jpg?resize=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/12468896665_0e1cc5280b_z.jpg?resize=624%2C470&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/12468896665_0e1cc5280b_z.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.remember.oregonviola.org\">Guest book here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Guest book here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-3rj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":248,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/19\/wish-list\/","url_meta":{"origin":13225,"position":0},"title":"wish list","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 19, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"A few months ago Elaine Calder asked the orchestra members to suggest guest artists with whom they would like to work. 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