{"id":3097,"date":"2009-09-10T16:05:42","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T23:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=3097"},"modified":"2013-02-07T19:54:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T03:54:45","slug":"new-blog-in-tacoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/10\/new-blog-in-tacoma\/","title":{"rendered":"new blog in Tacoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in or around Pierce County, Washington, you might want to add <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/piercecountyclassicalmusic.blogspot.com\">Pierce County Classical Music<\/a> to your list of must-read blogs.\u00a0 The blogger, John Falskow, is hoping to provide a one stop, comprehensive list of all classical music activities taking place in Pierce County.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;d appreciate some heads-up on upcoming events you&#8217;ve got planned, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in or around Pierce County, Washington, you might want to add Pierce County Classical Music to your list of must-read blogs.\u00a0 The blogger, John Falskow, is hoping to provide a one stop, comprehensive list of all classical music activities taking place in Pierce County.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;d appreciate some heads-up on upcoming [&hellip;]<\/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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[225,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggers","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-NX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3583,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/10\/batons-and-those-who-wield-them\/","url_meta":{"origin":3097,"position":0},"title":"batons and those who wield them","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 10, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"A great article from the San Francisco Chronicle about the baton that most (but not all) conductors use to conduct the orchestra. 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