{"id":882,"date":"2025-11-26T13:42:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/?p=882"},"modified":"2025-11-26T13:42:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:42:59","slug":"milestone-10-hours-of-music-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/milestone-10-hours-of-music-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Milestone: 10 Hours of Music Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just had a <a href=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/25\/milestone-50000-left-hand-strokes\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/25\/milestone-50000-left-hand-strokes\/\">milestone yesterday<\/a>, of 10,000 left hand strokes.  Today I crossed the tenth hour of music practice (since I started tracking).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems inconsequential having two small ones so close together.  But it&#8217;s still encouraging.  It means I&#8217;ve had 10 days of deliberate practice, not just screwing around whimsically.  A solid hour each day of focused work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will probably be the only time I&#8217;ll hit two milestones in one week.  It&#8217;s like quests in RPG video games.  You go do your first simple quest and you hit Level 2 right away.  When you hit higher levels, the level-ups are few and far between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve gamified my life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"853\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/HummingbirdSilhouette-853x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/HummingbirdSilhouette-853x1024.jpg 853w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/HummingbirdSilhouette-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/HummingbirdSilhouette-768x922.jpg 768w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/HummingbirdSilhouette-1280x1536.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/HummingbirdSilhouette-1707x2048.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just had a milestone yesterday, of 10,000 left hand strokes. Today I crossed the tenth hour of music practice (since I started tracking). It seems inconsequential having two small ones so close together. But it&#8217;s still encouraging. It means I&#8217;ve had 10 days of deliberate practice, not just screwing around whimsically. A solid hour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}