{"id":22,"date":"2016-04-24T02:17:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T02:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.78strings.com\/home\/?p=22"},"modified":"2016-04-24T02:19:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T02:19:00","slug":"virginia-tech-itraab-performance-41716","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.78strings.com\/home\/virginia-tech-itraab-performance-41716\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Tech Itraab Performance, 4\/17\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Itraab Arabic Music Ensemble played to a LIVELY standing-room-only crowd at the Moss Arts Center last Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Itraab Ensemble, Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gGr3YPAcQiQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been rehearsing together since September 2015, and many of these folks had never played these instruments or sung in Arabic before then. It has been such a pleasure for me to teach these spirited and open-hearted musicians in the town where I have deep roots. Many thanks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artscenter.vt.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech<\/a> for this opportunity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Itraab Arabic Music Ensemble played to a LIVELY standing-room-only crowd at the Moss Arts Center last Sunday night. We&#8217;ve been rehearsing together since September 2015, and many of these folks had never played these instruments or sung in Arabic before then. It has been such a pleasure for me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-itraab","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.78strings.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.78strings.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.78strings.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.78strings.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.78strings.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.78strings.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.78strings.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.78strings.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.78strings.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.78strings.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}