{"id":3906,"date":"2016-09-03T12:18:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T12:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3906"},"modified":"2016-09-03T12:18:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T12:18:56","slug":"preference-for-teaching-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3906","title":{"rendered":"Preference for Teaching Aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/images-5.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3911\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/images-5.jpeg\" alt=\"images-5\" width=\"389\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/images-5.jpeg 389w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/images-5-300x99.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve taught kids a little but they don&#8217;t show up wanting to study as much as fulfilling an idea their parents have so it&#8217;s uncertain whether they do the work each week, embarrassing for all. I would rather work with people who want the gold than those who want to please someone else&#8217;s idea.<\/p>\n<p>One of my piano students is a guy who started playing late in life, in his 20s but he&#8217;s on fire and being on fire is an asset. Each week his hands go from being uncertain to confident. I&#8217;m not familiar with this &#8211; maybe he&#8217;s not human.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve taught kids a little but they don&#8217;t show up wanting to study as much as fulfilling an idea their parents have so it&#8217;s uncertain whether they do the work <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3906\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","post-3906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}