{"id":2342,"date":"2023-03-26T15:40:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T20:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2023-03-26T15:40:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T20:40:26","slug":"volunteer-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/volunteer-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Easter is two weeks away and already demands on musicians are piling up. There is an Easter Cantata group formed but I am not going to join it this year. Not just hip replacement post-surgery twinges and aches but my music group has been asked to play at Wayne Chism&#8217;s memorial service, which I am very happy to do, but it requires at least one rehearsal, Mark is having a memorial service for his parents, which again I am happy to be with the group and play for it, because I&#8217;ve met his parents and liked them a great deal, do and then Sunday services and then a lovely child is having a birthday for which we sing &#8220;This Little Light of Mine&#8221; and we&#8217;ve got to figure out something for Easter.  But I wouldn&#8217;t have it any other way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/horse0129.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"743\" src=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/horse0129-1024x743.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/horse0129-1024x743.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/horse0129-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/horse0129-768x557.jpg 768w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/horse0129-1536x1114.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/horse0129-624x453.jpg 624w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/horse0129.jpg 1896w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve been happy doing it and I think we&#8217;ve made other people happy, and lightened hearts and smoothed over hard times. I have learned so much about music. I think music is what makes human beings different from all other life on Earth, even more than language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easter is two weeks away and already demands on musicians are piling up. There is an Easter Cantata group formed but I am not going to join it this year. Not just hip replacement post-surgery twinges and aches but my music group has been asked to play at Wayne Chism&#8217;s memorial service, which I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2344,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions\/2344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}