{"id":829,"date":"2007-02-06T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=829"},"modified":"2007-02-06T00:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T08:05:00","slug":"hotel_pianist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2007\/02\/hotel_pianist\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotel Pianist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to fellow artsjournal.com traveler <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/aboutlastnight\/index.shtml\"target=\"_blank\">Terry Teachout<\/a> for mentioning a blog of which I was unaware until ten minutes ago. It is witty, quiet and touching, and I can&#8217;t help wondering if that&#8217;s how the anonymous blogger known as The Hotel Pianist plays. Here are samples of her writing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As I&#8217;ve written, I don&#8217;t often smile while sitting at the hotel piano. I used to smile automatically at guests who walked by, but on too many occasions, my smile was met with a scowl or a stone-cold expression. This hurt my feelings (hey, hotel pianists have feelings, too!), so my default expression is now a preemptive scowl. But if you happen to approach me with a shy smile, I&#8217;ll gladly return the pleasantry. (As long as you don&#8217;t request certain tunes.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Comment Of The Night<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Before you were born,&#8221; said a wizened man who claimed to have attended high school with Bobby Timmons, &#8220;they used to have places like the Blue Note.&#8221; (The last time I checked, the Blue Note was alive and well, if a tourist trap!)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am still racing multiple deadlines. It is late at night. I just finished one piece and am about to start another. There will be no further posting here tonight. So you may as well check in with <a href=\"http:\/\/hotelpianist.blogspot.com\/\"target=\"_blank\"><em>The Hotel Pianist<\/em><\/a>. Please come back tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to fellow artsjournal.com traveler Terry Teachout for mentioning a blog of which I was unaware until ten minutes ago. It is witty, quiet and touching, and I can&#8217;t help wondering if that&#8217;s how the anonymous blogger known as The Hotel Pianist plays. Here are samples of her writing: As I&#8217;ve written, I don&#8217;t often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}