{"id":2959,"date":"2015-10-29T15:55:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T22:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=2959"},"modified":"2015-11-10T09:57:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T17:57:28","slug":"throwback-thursday-a-young-li-jie-tackles-paganini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/throwback-thursday-a-young-li-jie-tackles-paganini\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: A Young Li Jie Tackles Paganini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LtPiFU7UICM?list=PL1CFE96A07726E78B\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br clear=\"all\"><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s nothing like a little Paganini to make you feel completely inadequate as a guitarist. Especially when it&#8217;s the daunting &#8220;Caprice No. 24,&#8221; originally written for solo violin, played a by a 13-year-old. In this case, it&#8217;s a (slightly grainy) early performance by the Chinese prodigy Li Jie (now in her mid-30s), who began her guitar studies with the great teacher Chen Zhi when she was just 11. This isn&#8217;t flawless, but its still pretty incredible. So, happy birthday to Nicolo Paganini, who turned 233 this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing like a little Paganini to make you feel completely inadequate as a guitarist. Especially when it&#8217;s the daunting &#8220;Caprice No. 24,&#8221; originally written for solo violin, played a by a 13-year-old. In this case, it&#8217;s a (slightly grainy) early performance by the Chinese prodigy Li Jie (now in her mid-30s), who began her guitar studies with the great teacher Chen Zhi when she was just 11. This isn&#8217;t flawless, but its still pretty incredible. So, happy birthday to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2960,"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":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-watch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Li-Jie.jpg?fit=480%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}