{"id":160,"date":"2014-03-06T10:28:01","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T18:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashworthdavidg.ca\/?p=160"},"modified":"2026-04-19T16:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:55:20","slug":"new-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/03\/06\/new-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"New Piano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Took delivery of a used Yamaha U3 piano at the house two days ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/87eb3-img_20140304_145241-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/87eb3-img_20140304_145241-001.jpg 800w, https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/87eb3-img_20140304_145241-001-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/87eb3-img_20140304_145241-001-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shopping for a used piano is similar to shopping for a used car; very time consuming and frustrating. &nbsp;After visiting many stores (twice) and pursuing some private sales, I purchased this piano from a specialist in importing reconditioned pianos from Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next challenge was to find economical transportation to the house. &nbsp;It all worked out and I was playing happily on a real piano again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Took delivery of a used Yamaha U3 piano at the house two days ago. Shopping for a used piano is similar to shopping for a used car; very time consuming and frustrating. &nbsp;After visiting many stores (twice) and pursuing some private sales, I purchased this piano from a specialist in importing reconditioned pianos from Japan. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/03\/06\/new-piano\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Piano&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1679,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/1679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}