{"id":1037,"date":"2022-01-14T15:49:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T15:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2022-01-14T15:49:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T15:49:51","slug":"try-a-little-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/?p=1037","title":{"rendered":"Try a Little Kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi Friends, I love this music video! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This song is special to me as a songwriter\/performer, and this is a great version that put in tears in my eyes as a teacher! The first time I likely ever heard anyone play and sing guitar was this song. I was about 4 years old, and Dennis Herbison (my aunt&#8217;s brother) sang it around a kitchen table at my aunt and uncle&#8217;s place in Peace River. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember that moment so clearly. It was the moment that gave me my life&#8217;s direction and purpose because right then I saw that music was magic, and playing music was what I wanted to do. Thankfully, some 55 years later I am still playing music and have shared this magic with many thousands of students who I have been honoured to teach over my career. I still cover this song, and love performing it. And yes, music is magic. Keep on singing, friends!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/betty.mcivor\/videos\/668707274104332\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/betty.mcivor\/videos\/668707274104332<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TRY A LITTLE KINDNESS - JANN ARDEN W\/DOANE USCHOOL\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8GzLHgdz4ag?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Friends, I love this music video! This song is special to me as a songwriter\/performer, and this is a great version that put in tears in my eyes as a teacher! The first time I likely ever heard anyone play and sing guitar was this song. I was about 4 years old, and Dennis &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/?p=1037\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Try a Little Kindness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038,"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvmachura.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}