{"id":56416,"date":"2016-11-21T17:28:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T17:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/choose_one_chair-wisdom_from_the_father_of_luciano_pavarotti_1935-2007\/"},"modified":"2016-11-21T17:28:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T17:28:03","slug":"choose_one_chair-wisdom_from_the_father_of_luciano_pavarotti_1935-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56416","title":{"rendered":"Choose one chair&#8211;Wisdom from the father of Luciano Pavarotti (1935-2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I was a boy, my father, a baker, introduced me to the wonders of song,\u201d\u009d tenor Luciano Pavarotti relates. \u201cHe urged me to work very hard to develop my voice. Arrigo Pola, a professional tenor in my hometown of Modena, Italy, took me as a pupil. I also enrolled in a teachers college. On graduating, I asked my father, \u201d\u02dcShall I be a teacher or a singer?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u201d\u02dcLuciano,\u2019 my father replied, \u201d\u02dcif you try to sit on two chairs, you will fall between them. For life, you must choose one chair.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI chose one. It took seven years of study and frustration before I made my first professional appearance. It took another seven to reach the Metropolitan Opera. And now I think whether it\u2019s laying bricks, writing a book\u201d\u201dwhatever we choose\u201d\u201dwe should give ourselves to it. Commitment, that\u2019s the key. Choose one chair.\u201d\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> (&#8211;used yesterday by yours truly in the morning sermon).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: When I was a boy, my father, a baker, introduced me to the wonders of song,\u201d\u009d tenor Luciano Pavarotti relates. \u201cHe urged me to work very hard to develop my voice. Arrigo Pola, a professional tenor in my<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56416\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,175,101,168,200,448,98,129,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-italy","category-marriage-family","category-psychology","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}