{"id":4551,"date":"2025-05-04T09:57:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T09:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=4551"},"modified":"2025-05-04T09:57:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T09:57:35","slug":"a-lesson-from-john-williams-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/04\/a-lesson-from-john-williams-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"A lesson from John Williams&#8217; Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Proverbs 4:1 KJV \u2014 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarplayer.com\/players\/john-williams-on-his-career-in-classical-guitar-and-his-views-on-teaching\">The famous composer, John Williams on his father:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My father was a brilliant psychologist. He was not a sort to lock you in a cold room and say you\u2019ve got to do an hour\u2019s scales every day. He said, \u201cYou\u2019ve really got a talent. I think you could be really good and you should practice some each day. Just do half an hour every day and it will be enough.\u201d So I used to do half an hour\u2019s practice a day, that\u2019s all. He just had to guide me and teach me but he didn\u2019t interfere a lot.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proverbs 4:1 KJV \u2014 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. The famous composer, John Williams on his father: My father was a brilliant psychologist. He was not a sort to lock you in a cold room and say you\u2019ve got to do an hour\u2019s scales every day. He &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/04\/a-lesson-from-john-williams-dad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A lesson from John Williams&#8217; Dad&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5743,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions\/5743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}