{"id":255,"date":"2008-01-24T11:19:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T11:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2008-01-24T11:19:08","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T11:19:08","slug":"hundreds-of-dollars-worth-of-piano-lessons-every-month-totally-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=255","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of dollars worth of piano lessons every month?  Totally worth it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Girl just won the spelling bee at her school!  The last two contestants were Girl and her good friend, C.  They went head-to-head for about 8 rounds, and smiling and cheering each other on.  Here&#8217;s the kicker:  the word that got best friend eliminated?  Crescendo.  The word that Girl had to spell, after that, to win?  Staccato.<\/p>\n<p>Girl is over the moon and will go on to compete at a district-wide bee in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>FYI &#8211; Good friend C. is super-smart, very sweet and an amazing speller.  She stayed in the bee last year much longer (3rd place!) than Girl did, so this was truly anybody&#8217;s game and either girl would have been thrilled to have the other one win.  I am taking both girls (and Girl&#8217;s cousin, A) to the Hannah Montana concert tonight to celebrate.  YAY!<\/p>\n<p>Celebratory Lunch:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_4213.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/IMG_4213.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"205\" \/><br \/>\nGrilled Herb-Roasted Turkey and Pepper-Jack Cheese with a baby salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girl just won the spelling bee at her school! The last two contestants were Girl and her good friend, C. They went head-to-head for about 8 rounds, and smiling and cheering each other on. Here&#8217;s the kicker: the word that got best friend eliminated? Crescendo. The word that Girl had to spell, after that, to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=255\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hundreds of dollars worth of piano lessons every month?  Totally worth it.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}