{"id":1229,"date":"2015-03-12T12:09:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T19:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2015-03-12T12:09:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T19:09:44","slug":"xu-kun-liu-wins-big-with-fernando-sors-grand-solo-at-the-2014-gfa-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/xu-kun-liu-wins-big-with-fernando-sors-grand-solo-at-the-2014-gfa-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Xu Kun Liu Wins Big with Fernando Sor&#8217;s &#8216;Grand Solo&#8217; at the 2014 GFA Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oocRgVgmi5Y?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>Canadian guitarist Xu Kun Liu took first place in the Junior Division at the 2014 GFA Competition in June. In the above clip, Liu performs Fernando Sor\u2019s Grand Solo. At 14 years old Liu, who has been studying guitar (and piano) since age five, shows no signs of slowing down. The Vancouver Classical Guitar Society reports that Liu \u201chas won several scholarships to support his studies.\u201d For more on the Guitar Foundation of America Competition, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/guitarfoundation.site-ym.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian guitarist Xu Kun Liu took first place in the Junior Division at the 2014 GFA Competition in June. In the above clip, Liu performs Fernando Sor\u2019s Grand Solo. At 14 years old Liu, who has been studying guitar (and piano) since age five, shows no signs of slowing down. The Vancouver Classical Guitar Society reports that Liu \u201chas won several scholarships to support his studies.\u201d For more on the Guitar Foundation of America Competition, click here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competitions","category-watch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/auto-draft.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}