{"id":355,"date":"2015-08-19T02:30:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T02:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yourweeklylisten.com\/?p=355"},"modified":"2015-08-19T02:30:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T02:30:48","slug":"great-musicians-who-learned-to-play-at-home-with-their-families-1-john-lennon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/music\/great-musicians-who-learned-to-play-at-home-with-their-families-1-john-lennon\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Musicians Who Learned to Play at Home With Their Families #1: John Lennon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/236x\/e4\/2f\/b3\/e42fb3b3b3fd0605135d7587cedb0662.jpg\" width=400 alt=\"John Lennon\" \/><\/p>\n<p>John Lennon&#8217;s first and only music teacher was his mother, Julia Lennon. She played the banjo and taught him to play when he was a boy. He never had any formal music lessons. <\/p>\n<p>He went on to form The Beatles and a songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney that would be one of the most successful and influential in the history of popular music.<\/p>\n<p>So the moral of the story is &#8230; today, play banjo with your kid, and tomorrow, she could become a superstar! Or if not, then hopefully a happy, well-adjusted person who enjoys playing and sharing music with others and feels good about the sounds he makes. \ud83d\ude42  After all, our kids are all superstars to us! <\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 560px; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.musicplayon.com\/play?v=274541\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Beatles &#8211; Yellow Submarine (Original Animated Video) (1966)<\/a><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/en.musicplayon.com\/embed-v2?v=274541\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Lennon&#8217;s first and only music teacher was his mother, Julia Lennon. She played the banjo and taught him to play when he was a boy. He never had any formal music lessons. He went on to form The Beatles and a songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney that would be one of the most successful [&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":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}