{"id":26180,"date":"2015-03-09T11:16:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T15:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=26180"},"modified":"2015-03-11T08:30:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T12:30:51","slug":"fits-and-bursts-a-musicians-pockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2015\/03\/09\/fits-and-bursts-a-musicians-pockets\/","title":{"rendered":"FITS AND BURSTS | A Musician\u2019s Pockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_26181\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26181\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26181\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/096-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A musician's pockets\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/096-copy.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/096-copy-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A musician&#8217;s pockets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><b>In the pocket of an average classical musician (hardened, unmarried)<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A worn and lumpy leather wallet overflowing with price-club cards, and Canadian Tire money<\/li>\n<li>Subway tokens<\/li>\n<li>Go Train schedule<\/li>\n<li>An older model burner\u00a0cellphone<\/li>\n<li>A debit card with tape over the magnetic strip<\/li>\n<li>A photo of your best friend teaching English in Thailand<\/li>\n<li>1 stolen ballpoint pen (hotel variety)<\/li>\n<li>A letter from high school sweetheart who has gone onto marry\u00a0someone with a regular job.<\/li>\n<li>1 comp. ticket to next week\u2019s matin\u00e9e at Roy Thomson Hall<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"p3\">Married musician<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p4\">a bill fold<\/li>\n<li class=\"p4\">A 649-lotto ticket (could be a winner)<\/li>\n<li class=\"p4\">A photo of the wife (before she started working nights)<\/li>\n<li class=\"p4\">Italian After Coffee Mints purchased during a moment of affluence<\/li>\n<li class=\"p4\">5 business cards, stuck together with some kind of sticky resin<\/li>\n<li class=\"p4\">Errant violin bow hair \u2013 (a mystery)<\/li>\n<li class=\"p4\">Smart phone with an unshakable\u00a025-year contract<\/li>\n<li class=\"p4\">Keys to the minivan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"p3\">A Musician with orchestra tenure<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p4\">A small pill-box full of\u00a0Valium<\/li>\n<li class=\"p4\">A single Amex credit card with an unknown limit<\/li>\n<li class=\"p4\">An e-cigarette with 12 mg nicotine juice<\/li>\n<li class=\"p4\">Lunch money<\/li>\n<li class=\"p4\">Persol Sunglasses<\/li>\n<li class=\"p4\">Keys to the\u00a0sedan<\/li>\n<li class=\"p4\">Large collection of press clippings. These will be reviews <span class=\"s5\">published<\/span> by national newspapers and magazines by critics more famous tha<span class=\"s5\">n<\/span> you are. Includes B-roll material where your name is incorrectly spel<span class=\"s5\">led<\/span>, or you were left out entirely in favour of\u00a0more inches for the visiting soloist.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p4\">If you die getting hit by car crossing the street, they will identify you by your press clippings. They will know you are either a musician or a critic. Critics never die, so they will know you are a musician.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An analysis of the contents of a musician\u2019s pockets&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":26181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[118,4930],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/096-copy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-6Og","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26180"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26226,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26180\/revisions\/26226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26180"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=26180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}