{"id":83,"date":"2006-10-18T12:14:08","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T20:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=83"},"modified":"2006-10-18T12:14:08","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T20:14:08","slug":"the-string-quartet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2006\/10\/18\/the-string-quartet\/","title":{"rendered":"the string quartet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"the string quartet\" id=\"image82\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/quartet_cartoon_sm.jpg?w=580\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[],"tags":[3660],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-viola"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7339,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/21\/quartet-puzzles\/","url_meta":{"origin":83,"position":0},"title":"quartet puzzles","author":"Charles Noble","date":"February 21, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This is the first of an occasional series of posts that I'd like to write which concern the torture of playing the viola in a string quartet. 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