{"id":56,"date":"2019-09-24T12:35:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T12:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/kelley\/?p=56"},"modified":"2019-09-24T12:35:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T12:35:15","slug":"drum-dream-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/kelley\/2019\/09\/24\/drum-dream-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Drum Dream Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\"><p>The next couple of weeks our music classes will explore percussion music written to celebrate a great percussionist, Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who was the first woman drummer on the island of Cuba.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Drum Dream Girl<\/em> by Margarita Engle is an award winning book about a little girl who dreamed of playing drums in a time when girls were not allowed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Students will explore her story and layered percussion music to connect history with cultures around the Americas and the emergence of Jazz music in America.&nbsp; Students will experience syncopated rhythms and begin to use different rhythmic&nbsp;patterns to create their own drum songs.&nbsp;<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/kelley\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/140\/2019\/09\/download.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"250\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next couple of weeks our music classes will explore percussion music written to celebrate a great percussionist, Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who was the first woman drummer on the island of Cuba.&nbsp;&nbsp; Drum Dream Girl by Margarita Engle is an award winning book about a little girl who dreamed of playing drums in a time &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/kelley\/2019\/09\/24\/drum-dream-girl\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/kelley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/kelley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/kelley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/kelley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/kelley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/kelley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/kelley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/kelley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/kelley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/kelley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}