{"id":159,"date":"2003-12-14T05:18:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-14T05:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/2003\/12\/14\/and-if-i-ever-dare-to-stand-from-this-bench\/"},"modified":"2003-12-14T05:18:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-14T05:18:00","slug":"and-if-i-ever-dare-to-stand-from-this-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/2003\/12\/14\/and-if-i-ever-dare-to-stand-from-this-bench\/","title":{"rendered":"And if I ever dare to stand from this bench&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always wanted to sing in the school band.<\/p>\n<p>But I didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I had to play the bass.<\/p>\n<p>My music teacher saw I was good at the guitar, so he got me into the band, and I had to play the bass. At first, the drummer hated me, so it got to a point where it was her or me, and she left because she couldn&#8217;t stand my music teacher. I used to write songs, and finally we got to play one of them. As a last-minute act, I would go out alone with an acoustic guitar, and I would sing my latest song. That was my only chance to sing. No matter how much I begged, my teacher would never let me sing any of the normal act songs. He said I sang well, but he needed me at the bass, not at the microphone.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I had been a singer in a band&#8230; Those who know me know how much I enjoy singing, how much I miss singing. I really wish I had been a band&#8217;s lead singer&#8230; but now it&#8217;s too late, and the best I can do is close my bedroom door, grab my guitar, and dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always wanted to sing in the school band. But I didn&#8217;t. I had to play the bass. My music teacher saw I was good at the guitar, so he got me into the band, and I had to play the bass. At first, the drummer hated me, so it got to a point where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}