{"id":297,"date":"2010-06-14T20:45:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T03:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chineseeinstein.wordpress.com\/?p=297"},"modified":"2010-06-14T20:45:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T03:45:37","slug":"music-the-study-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jason-fu.com\/blog\/music-the-study-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Music, the study of."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know (or don&#8217;t know), music is a pretty big part of my life. I was raised around a body of music, not necessarily because I was forced to but because I wanted to.<\/p>\n<p>I was a&#8230; I was amazing, if you could put it that way. I have gifts in the area of music that others do not. By an early age, I knew this, so naturally, I became arrogant.<\/p>\n<p>I developed my own strict views on music, such as what was good and what was bad. Then I classified music by those guidelines. 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