{"id":58629,"date":"2017-10-24T14:32:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T14:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stold.wpengine.com\/scholarship\/?p=58629"},"modified":"2017-10-24T14:32:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T14:32:46","slug":"the-instrument-that-changed-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/2017\/10\/24\/the-instrument-that-changed-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The instrument that changed my life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One night, one person, one instrument changed my life forever. It all started when I went to the most epic and life changing concert, an Ed Sheeran concert. The whole time I was mesmerized by how beautiful the guitar was. I could not get the thought of playing it out of my head. I just kept thinking of how someone could make something so beautiful come out of something that looked like a wood shaped avocado. I did not stop talking about the concert and the guitar for months. My parents thought it was just a phase and that I would get over it but I didn\u2019t. A few months after the concert, my parents gave me my first guitar, a pink one I might add. Every single day, morning and night, I played that guitar like my life depended on it. Many years went by and I took guitar lessons and I upgraded from my small pink guitar to a beautiful black fender. Music was my whole life. Slowly I started getting better and better to where I did not need a guitar teacher anymore.. That did not stop me from continuing to learn more and get better each day. I started playing for other people besides my friends and family. I started busking out on the street and just playing some songs that were popular at the time. One day, just like all the other days I went busking, a man approached me while I was playing. He knelt down and asked me my name and age and if my parents were around. I pointed to the bench where my parents always sat and continued to play. By the time it was to go home I had completely forgot about the man. When we got home my parents sat me down and told me that the man had been listening to me for a few days and asked if I would like to play in his band he was putting together. Of course I said yes and about a week later I went to meet the other people and we instantly clicked. We started getting different bookings to play until we got an invitation to play at a festival. This was it, this was what I had been practicing and waiting for. The day finally arrived and we were up on stage and I was looking out at the crowd and I could not believe that my life goal was finally happening. It was everything I dreamed of. In that moment, I was the one inspiring other kids to play what was a beautiful and life changing instrument.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stold.wpengine.com\/scholarship\/\">Vote For Hannah&#8217;s Essay<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One night, one person, one instrument changed my life forever. It all started when I went to the most epic and life changing concert, an Ed Sheeran concert. The whole time I was mesmerized by how beautiful the guitar was. I could not get the thought of playing it out of my head. I just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4118,4111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-october-2017","category-scholarship-essay-submissions"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}