{"id":30,"date":"2006-11-26T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/?p=30"},"modified":"2006-11-26T12:07:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-26T20:07:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-starting-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/quote-of-the-day-starting-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day: Starting Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another quote regarding the learning curve. To get into something new you have to start as a neophyte and work your way up.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.karlnelson.net\/weblog\/000989.html\">Quote of the Day<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>From <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=as2&#038;path=ASIN\/0375760857&#038;tag=karlnelsonnet-20&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">Stradivari&#8217;s Genius<\/a><\/em>, as Tony Faber describes Johann Salomon giving violin lessons to King George III.<\/p>\n<p>When the king asked his teacher how he was doing, Salomon is said to have replied:  &#8220;There are three levels of skill in violin playing:  an inability to play, the ability to play badly, and the ability to play well.  Your Majesty, I am pleased to say, has already reached the second level.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pleased to say that I&#8217;ve probably reached George&#8217;s level, too.<\/p>\n<p>And, I think the sentiment probably applies to many skills.  And that&#8217;s what makes learning difficult things fun&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another quote regarding the learning curve. To get into something new you have to start as a neophyte and work your way up. Quote of the Day: From Stradivari&#8217;s Genius, as Tony Faber describes Johann Salomon giving violin lessons to King George III. When the king asked his teacher how he was doing, Salomon is &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/quote-of-the-day-starting-out\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quote of the Day: Starting Out<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pUBG8-u","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}