{"id":983,"date":"2005-07-16T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-17T04:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2005\/07\/16\/to-do-before-i-die\/"},"modified":"2005-07-16T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-17T04:12:00","slug":"to-do-before-i-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/16\/to-do-before-i-die\/","title":{"rendered":"To do (before I die)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>-Learn taiko drumming.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve loved taiko drumming since I saw my first show in San Francisco&rsquo;s Japantown during the <a href=\"http:\/\/bayimages.net\/san-francisco\/cherry-blossom-festival\/taiko-drummers\/\">Cherry Blossom Festiva<\/a>l. I tried to catch every taiko concert I could but I hadn&rsquo;t seen any shows since I moved to Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>I finally got to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blork\/26443920\/\">a great taiko performance<\/a> tonight at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fipfestivaldepercussions.com\/\">Festival International des Percussions<\/a> in the Vieux-Longueuil. Montreal&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arashidaiko.org\/Menu-En.html\">Arashi Daiko<\/a> ensemble offered a great 45 minute show and the crowd loved it. The energy one feels after such a concert!<\/p>\n<p>You have to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arashidaiko.org\/member-En.html\">pretty dedicated<\/a> to learn taiko drumming so I&rsquo;ve never managed to find classes just for curious amateurs. Ah but one day, one day, I might give it a shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-Learn taiko drumming. I&rsquo;ve loved taiko drumming since I saw my first show in San Francisco&rsquo;s Japantown during the Cherry Blossom Festival. I tried to catch every taiko concert I could but I hadn&rsquo;t seen any shows since I moved to Montreal. I finally got to see a great taiko performance tonight at the Festival&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/16\/to-do-before-i-die\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">To do (before I die)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}