{"id":49,"date":"2004-12-14T00:28:12","date_gmt":"2004-12-14T04:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2004\/12\/14\/tone-deaf-and-proud-of-it\/"},"modified":"2004-12-14T00:28:12","modified_gmt":"2004-12-14T04:28:12","slug":"tone-deaf-and-proud-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2004\/12\/14\/tone-deaf-and-proud-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Tone Deaf and Proud of it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a16'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wow, I really can&#8217;t sing.&nbsp; At all.&nbsp; That became painfully obvious tonight.&nbsp; After ducking out of work before seven, virtually unheard of in the corporate legal world, I headed out to Handel&#8217;s Messiah sing-a-long at the nearby&nbsp;Walt Disney Concert Hall.&nbsp; That&#8217;s right folks.&nbsp; You heard me:&nbsp; Handel&#8217;s Messiah sing-a-long.&nbsp; Minutes after sitting down and picking up the score, I realized that I&#8217;d somehow forgotten everything I had learned in my six years of playing the piano and clarinet.&nbsp; And that I&#8217;ve never had to sing in public without a couple of beers in me.&nbsp; Fortunately, the rest of the crowd&nbsp;was more than loud enough to cover the fact that I was only mouthing the words, as well as the fact that I stopped doing so about five minutes into the first song because I realized&nbsp;even that required too much work.&nbsp;&nbsp;The music was&nbsp;good, the venue was neat, and the&nbsp;crowd was enthusiastic though, so all in all, it was a good night.&nbsp; And on that note, good night all.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, I really can&#8217;t sing.&nbsp; At all.&nbsp; That became painfully obvious tonight.&nbsp; After ducking out of work before seven, virtually unheard of in the corporate legal world, I headed out to Handel&#8217;s Messiah sing-a-long at the nearby&nbsp;Walt Disney Concert Hall.&nbsp; That&#8217;s right folks.&nbsp; You heard me:&nbsp; Handel&#8217;s Messiah sing-a-long.&nbsp; Minutes after sitting down and picking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}