{"id":5079,"date":"2018-09-16T09:39:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T16:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=5079"},"modified":"2018-09-16T09:39:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T16:39:05","slug":"amplified-victoria-bc-09-15-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=5079","title":{"rendered":"Amplified \u2013 Victoria, BC \u2013 [09-15-2018]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5080\" src=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/what_a_wonderful_noise_by_henartorinos-d5h9sv8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/what_a_wonderful_noise_by_henartorinos-d5h9sv8.jpg 484w, https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/what_a_wonderful_noise_by_henartorinos-d5h9sv8-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/>For Christmas this past year, Amras got me a practice amp and a cable. That was in January \u2013 it has been sitting under my loveseat collecting dust ever since. I have been absolutely <em>terrified<\/em> to plug in. This has been for a variety of reason \u2013 top in my head is that I know I\u2019m not exactly a great player (er\u2026one and a half songs does not a guitar player make) and I was genuinely nervous to hear what I actually <em>sound<\/em> like. Second in my mind was, if <em>I<\/em> could hear me, so could <em>everyone else in the house<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Gah!<\/p>\n<p>But the amp wasn\u2019t doing any good just sitting there collecting dust, and I realized I\u2019m never going to <em>learn<\/em> if I don\u2019t actually get up a little bit of courage and test my boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>So this morning I tuned Strange up, and unfurled the cable, and plugged in.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2026wasn\u2019t horrible.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, I\u2019m not fantastic or anything, but I\u2019m definitely\u2026not horrible.<\/p>\n<p>And \u2013 much to my incredible surprise \u2013 I was actually able to play something for my Mum <em>without<\/em> breaking my fingers or making an outrageous amount of mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>This\u2026is really pretty amazing for me. It never occurred to me that I would actually be able to <em>get<\/em> somewhere with guitar!<\/p>\n<p>But, I love Strange\u2026and playing, no matter how poorly or slowly, makes me feel better\u2026<\/p>\n<p>And hey, at least I\u2019m not afraid of my amplifier anymore!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Christmas this past year, Amras got me a practice amp and a cable. That was in January \u2013 it has been sitting under my loveseat collecting dust ever since. I have been absolutely terrified to plug in. This has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=5079\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[95,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guitar","category-vacation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-1jV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5081,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions\/5081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}