{"id":18193,"date":"2022-02-05T22:23:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T04:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=18193"},"modified":"2022-02-06T17:21:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T23:21:43","slug":"if-i-could-forget-about-music-i-would","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/05\/if-i-could-forget-about-music-i-would\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIf I could forget about music I would.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i have thought about this article, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/30\/nyregion\/redemption-of-a-lost-prodigy.html\">&#8220;Redemption of a Lost Prodigy&#8221; by Alex Vadukul<\/a>, since reading it. it&#8217;s about saul chandler, who was a child prodigy in violin, but gave it up. i can&#8217;t even find the exact part that gets me, but just the idea of losing oneself, starting over, letting go:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>But when Mr. Chandler turned 16, the pressures of producing excellence consumed him, and he had a nervous breakdown that derailed his career. He estranged himself from classical music and in an act of reinvention legally changed his name. He would lead a circuitous life that has since involved running a seedy hotel in Times Square, a successful career in mathematics and dramatic voyages at sea. Thirty years ago he started building boats on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/13\/realestate\/city-island-a-quainter-side-of-the-bronx.html?mtrref=www.google.com&amp;gwh=BE82451823F83D8FAE39C82EEB659F29&amp;gwt=pay\">City Island<\/a>, where he found peace on its waters. \u201cI don\u2019t want to be remembered for who I was,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause I ended up doing a lot of other great things in my life, too. People here know me for who I am now.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i have thought about this article, &#8220;Redemption of a Lost Prodigy&#8221; by Alex Vadukul, since reading it. it&#8217;s about saul chandler, who was a child prodigy in violin, but gave it up. i can&#8217;t even find the exact part that gets me, but just the idea of losing oneself, starting over, letting go: But when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18211,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18193\/revisions\/18211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}