{"id":1900,"date":"2019-05-25T10:10:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T17:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pnwfolklore.org\/wp-nwhoot\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2019-07-26T20:36:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T03:36:58","slug":"why-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pnwfolklore.org\/wp-nwhoot\/index.php\/2019\/05\/25\/why-music\/","title":{"rendered":"WHY MUSIC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/pnwfolklore.org\/MusicLesson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"376\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A painting on an ancient Greek vase depicts a music lesson (c. 510 BC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Why Teach Music?<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Music is a science<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Music is mathematical<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Music is a foreign language<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Music is history<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Music is a physical education<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Music is all these things, but most of all music is art<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>That is Why We Teach Music:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Not because we expect you to major in music<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Not because we expect you to play or sing all your life<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Not so you can relax<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Not so you can have fun<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Not because we expect you to major in music<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But so you will be human<\/em><br \/>\n<em>So you will recognize beauty<\/em><br \/>\n<em>So you will be sensitive<\/em><br \/>\n<em>So you will be closer to an infinite beyond this world<\/em><br \/>\n<em>So you will have something to cling to<\/em><br \/>\n<em>So you will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more good&#8211;in short, more life.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Of what value will it be to make a prosperous living unless we know how to live?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>That is Why We Teach Music!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Teach Music? Music is a science Music is mathematical Music is a foreign language Music is history Music is a physical education Music is all these things, but most of all music is art That is Why We Teach Music: Not because we expect you to major in music Not because we expect you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pnwfolklore.org\/wp-nwhoot\/index.php\/2019\/05\/25\/why-music\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WHY MUSIC?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pnwfolklore.org\/wp-nwhoot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pnwfolklore.org\/wp-nwhoot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pnwfolklore.org\/wp-nwhoot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pnwfolklore.org\/wp-nwhoot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pnwfolklore.org\/wp-nwhoot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/pnwfolklore.org\/wp-nwhoot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908,"href":"http:\/\/pnwfolklore.org\/wp-nwhoot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions\/1908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pnwfolklore.org\/wp-nwhoot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pnwfolklore.org\/wp-nwhoot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pnwfolklore.org\/wp-nwhoot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}