{"id":12604,"date":"2012-07-26T13:34:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T17:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=12604"},"modified":"2014-09-09T10:08:27","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T14:08:27","slug":"play-me-im-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2012\/07\/26\/play-me-im-yours\/","title":{"rendered":"Play Me, I&#8217;m Yours"},"content":{"rendered":"Some of you may have noticed that there's a piano sitting on Willcocks Commons. You know, the stretch of patio furniture and green between Lash Miller and Sid Smith.\r\n\r\nMy desk buddy Jennifer and I decided to investigate last week, and let me tell you, we had wayyyy too much fun for two people who were supposed to be working.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2012\/07\/me-on-piano.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12605 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2012\/07\/me-on-piano-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2012\/07\/me-on-piano-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2012\/07\/me-on-piano.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\nTurns out the piano is actually one of 41 across the city commemorating the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto2015.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">2015 PanAm Games<\/a>, which will be hosted in Toronto. Why 41 pianos? Each piano represents one of the 41 participating countries. The project is called \"Play Me, I'm Yours\" and is a visual art display, with pianos painted by artists from the 41 countries.\u00a0The one here represents Bolivia.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2012\/07\/jen-on-piano.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12606\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2012\/07\/jen-on-piano-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2012\/07\/jen-on-piano-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2012\/07\/jen-on-piano.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\nJennifer has agreed to play a little bit of \u00a0Vanessa Carlton's \"A Thousand Miles\" for us. Let's listen to some music, shall we?\r\n\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dTk5YnUAA3A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\n\r\n- Crystal\r\n\r\n<em>To learn more about <\/em>Play Me, I'm Yours<em>, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/streetpianos.com\/toronto2012\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.streetpianos.ca<\/a>. There is even a page for the <a href=\"http:\/\/streetpianos.com\/toronto2012\/pianos\/philosophers-walk\/\" target=\"_blank\">U of T Piano<\/a>! If you have any pictures or videos, remember to share them on their website!<\/em>\r\n\r\n<em>Want to hear more from the Bolivia piano? Here's a video of a U of T music student, Alex Soloway, showcasing his amazing piano skills.\u00a0<\/em>\r\n\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HT5vncIEYgE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nSome of you may have noticed that there's a piano sitting on Willcocks Commons. You know, the stretch of patio furniture and green between Lash Miller and Sid Smith. My desk buddy Jennifer and I decided to investigate last week,&hellip;\n<\/div><div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2012\/07\/26\/play-me-im-yours\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Play Me, I&#8217;m Yours&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2012\/07\/26\/play-me-im-yours\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Play Me, I&#8217;m Yours&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,65,61,1],"tags":[9302,9301,9299,9300],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12604"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12624,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12604\/revisions\/12624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}