{"id":8,"date":"2018-03-26T09:39:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T09:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandlinsplace.net\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2018-04-05T17:09:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T17:09:59","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sandlinsplace.net\/?page_id=8","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am John Sandlin.<\/p>\n<p>Currently I am learning Piano using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.playgroundsessions.com\/\">Playground Sessions<\/a>. You&#8217;ll find me lurking in the Facebook &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/playgroundsessions\/\">Playground Sessions Community<\/a>&#8221; and occasionally posting videos of my progress in my quest to learn to play piano.<\/p>\n<p>I use Cakewalk SONAR Platinum when I&#8217;m working on music not related to Playground Sessions. If you&#8217;ve heard of SONAR before, you might have heard that Gibson Brands, the parent company, closed it down. A new company, BandLab purchased the intellectual property and is planning to bring it back. Their announcement is <a href=\"https:\/\/cakewalk.bandlab.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Now that BandLab has released an Early Version of their replacement for SONAR, called Cakewalk by BandLab, I very well may be using that instead. I&#8217;ll have both installed for a while. The extras that come with SONAR work in the new Cakewalk by Bandlab &#8211; which does not come with the extras.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am John Sandlin. Currently I am learning Piano using Playground Sessions. You&#8217;ll find me lurking in the Facebook &#8220;Playground Sessions Community&#8221; and occasionally posting videos of my progress in my quest to learn to play piano. I use Cakewalk SONAR Platinum when I&#8217;m working on music not related to Playground Sessions. If you&#8217;ve heard &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sandlinsplace.net\/?page_id=8\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandlinsplace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandlinsplace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandlinsplace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandlinsplace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandlinsplace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sandlinsplace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/sandlinsplace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandlinsplace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandlinsplace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}