Today is a day after my own heart.\u00a0 Today is World Pianist Day.<\/p>\n
While I don’t consider myself any kind of expert musician of any kind, I did take piano lessons for 10 years.\u00a0 I don’t get the chance to play too often these days, but I am glad that my folks spent the money.\u00a0 It made band a lot easier for me.\u00a0 And there are tons of studies than show how much playing music helps your cognitive skills.<\/p>\n
I have mad respect for professional musicians and I tip my hat to those who excel at the piano today.\u00a0 I invite you to do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today is a day after my own heart.\u00a0 Today is World Pianist Day. While I don’t consider myself any kind of expert musician of any kind, I did take piano lessons for 10 years.\u00a0 I don’t get the chance to play too often these days, but I am glad that my folks spent the money.\u00a0 It made band a lot… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-warm-fuzzies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t