{"id":5206,"date":"2013-02-08T17:48:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T22:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5206"},"modified":"2013-02-08T17:48:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T22:48:41","slug":"maintenance-ouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5206","title":{"rendered":"Maintenance. Ouch."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/organ-mainteance.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/organ-mainteance.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"organ-mainteance\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5207\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you install an amazing musical instrument like the abbey&#8217;s Rodgers 730 organ, you also take on the sacred responsibility of maintaining it. It&#8217;s a complicated being, and it&#8217;s 20 years old. Though nothing serious has ever gone wrong, little things go wrong, and it&#8217;s best not to let those little things mount up. Also, there are not many organ technicians around, as you might imagine. So I wait until the nearest technician is going to be in the area so that I can share his travel charges with other customers. Today he cleaned the key contacts (a couple of notes were stuttering), replaced some burned-out lamps in the pistons, and answered, as usual, my stream of nerdish questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you install an amazing musical instrument like the abbey&#8217;s Rodgers 730 organ, you also take on the sacred responsibility of maintaining it. It&#8217;s a complicated being, and it&#8217;s 20 years old. Though nothing serious has ever gone wrong, little things go wrong, and it&#8217;s best not to let those little things mount up. Also, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5206\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maintenance. Ouch.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}