{"id":171,"date":"2012-03-02T03:21:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T09:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/?p=171"},"modified":"2012-03-02T03:21:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T09:21:52","slug":"ya-ya-ya-ya-yo-yo-yo-yo-eeee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"ya ya ya ya yo yo yo yo eeee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voice lessons: a wonderful gift!\u00a0 All my life I wanted voice lessons.\u00a0 Various choir directors gave general directions, but having a personal coach was beyond my reach.\u00a0 Now, in China, late in my life, I have lessons from a professional voice teacher.\u00a0 She has little English, and I have even less Chinese.\u00a0 How can she teach me?\u00a0 She plays some notes on the piano and tells me to sing.\u00a0 Then she stops, mimics what I have done and says, &#8220;This, NO.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Then she does what she wants me to do and says, &#8220;This, YES.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then she will go to her computer translator program, type something in and then tell me something.\u00a0 Here is what she has told me so far: Yawn.\u00a0 While yawn, sigh.\u00a0 While yawn and sigh, hum.\u00a0 Speak naturally.\u00a0 voice open.\u00a0 throat open.\u00a0 relax. voice must be stable.<\/p>\n<p>Singing &#8212; a great gift of the spirit.\u00a0 I love having the training to help me keep on singing, because, you know, it&#8217;s a happiness thing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voice lessons: a wonderful gift!\u00a0 All my life I wanted voice lessons.\u00a0 Various choir directors gave general directions, but having a personal coach was beyond my reach.\u00a0 Now, in China, late in my life, I have lessons from a professional voice teacher.\u00a0 She has little English, and I have even less Chinese.\u00a0 How can she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}