{"id":204,"date":"2008-08-19T06:58:32","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T12:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/?p=204"},"modified":"2008-08-21T07:04:01","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T13:04:01","slug":"eighty-years-at-the-keyboard-and-still-going-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/2008\/08\/eighty-years-at-the-keyboard-and-still-going-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"Eighty Years at the Keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ELKHORN, WI (August 19, 2008) \u2013 Ruth Cook was 12 years old when the regular pianist at church was unable to play and the Sunday school superintendent asked her to play \u201cI Would Be True.\u201d That was nearly 80 years ago, and Cook, who is 91, has been the pianist and organist at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.millardchurch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Millard Community Church<\/a>\u00a0ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/cov\/news\/item6520\">Cov News article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=204&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELKHORN, WI (August 19, 2008) \u2013 Ruth Cook was 12 years old when the regular pianist at church was unable to play and the Sunday school superintendent asked her to play \u201cI Would Be True.\u201d That was nearly 80 years ago, and Cook, who is 91, has been the pianist and organist at\u00a0Millard Community Church\u00a0ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16,42],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-church","category-music","category-news","tag-keyboard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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