{"id":929,"date":"2013-09-05T10:59:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T09:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldgarcia.com\/wordpress\/?p=929"},"modified":"2013-09-05T11:07:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T10:07:05","slug":"one-in-a-billion-xue-feis-sojourn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=929","title":{"rendered":"One in a billion &#8211; Xue Fei&#8217;s Sojourn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By paving the way and becoming an international star, Fei has become a role model in her native China. \u201cLots of young people [in China] see me having a good career, and I hope that I can make them realise that the guitar is a beautiful instrument.\u201d Her passion for what she does is contagious. She speaks about the classical guitar and its music with the knowledge and experience of a veteran, yet with the enthusiasm and vigour of one who has just begun playing. \u201cPersonally, I always believed that the guitar the most well-rounded and self-entertaining instrument. It is so personal and intimate, as you have to hold a guitar with your body and to your heart.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theglassmagazine.com\/forum\/uploads\/529\/Album-Sojourn---front-cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theglassmagazine.com\/forum\/uploads\/529\/Album-Sojourn---front-cover.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theglassmagazine.com\/forum\/article.asp?tid=6092#title\" target=\"_blank\">Read this fascinating interview in Glass Magazine<br \/>\n<\/a>More on Fei <a title=\"What would you like to ask one of the world\u2019s finest classical guitarists?\" href=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com.c51.previewmysite.eu\/WPress\/?p=288\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/neil.worley.56?fref=ts\">Neil Worley<\/a> for the lead<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tx8Bf6VqJIs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By paving the way and becoming an international star, Fei has become a role model in her native China. \u201cLots of young people [in China] see me having a good career, and I hope that I can make them realise &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=929\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,41],"tags":[974,346,345],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":933,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/247767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}