{"id":28,"date":"2009-09-15T21:09:25","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T21:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2011-01-14T16:22:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T16:22:10","slug":"inheritance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/15\/inheritance\/","title":{"rendered":"Inheritance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday my six-year old grandson let himself into my electronic studio, stepped through the door with an air of confidence.? He noted the several PCs humming. One was writing a CD, another processing a Photoshop image, and the third was set up for a keyboard with several Vst instruments installed to filter the sounds I was making. I was playing ?Fur Elise??? at a moderate tempo, working out some unusual harmonies.? He looked around and? sort of whistled.? ?I just came in to look at your <em>stuff.<\/em>????<\/p>\n<p>I said ?Even a cat can look at a king.???? Which is my usual way of saying I don?t mind him watching me too much.<\/p>\n<p>Then he asked matter-of-factly, ?Are you going to die pretty soon, daddy????<\/p>\n<p>?I don?t know???? I tried to keep a straight face, meanwhile ?Maybe next week?perhaps Saturday,??? I replied in an off-hand sort of way.<\/p>\n<p>?Well???? he continued, ?When you do? can I have one of your computers????<\/p>\n<p>I?laughed. ??Well, by then they will certainly be obsolete. Kind of like me, too.???? No response, no problem with that word ?obsolete? but a longer glance around at some of my gear hanging from hooks over the keyboard- piezoelectric pickups and earphones mostly.<\/p>\n<p>?Finally, he asked again, ?How many earphones do you have, daddy????? He paused, ?I?ll count them!? One, two, three? four? five???? He concluded.? ?You have too many earphones!???<\/p>\n<p>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday my six-year old grandson let himself into my electronic studio, stepped through the door with an air of confidence.? He noted the several PCs humming. One was writing a CD, another processing a Photoshop image, and the third was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/15\/inheritance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}