{"id":2,"date":"2024-11-17T04:09:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T04:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/najjablesse.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-08-01T05:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:16:20","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/najjablesse.com\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"424\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/najjablesse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/pan-logo-edited.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83\" style=\"width:96px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/najjablesse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/pan-logo-edited.png 424w, https:\/\/najjablesse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/pan-logo-edited-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/najjablesse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/pan-logo-edited-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/najjablesse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/pan-logo-edited-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-plain is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">I&#8217;m Najja. I&#8217;m a pan-obsessed twenty-something-year-old who loves education, the arts, and ethnomusicology. <\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Creativity is the centre of gravity in my personal universe. I&#8217;ve been honing my skills as a pannist for the last two decades, and have learned to mold my musicianship to fit other aspects of my imagination over that time. Introductions can rarely escape awkwardness- allow me to give you the long and short:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I can play any pan in the panyard (even, begrudgingly, double pans). My favourite is a well-tuned four-cello.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One of my tenor pans is almost as old as I am. Her name is Golda.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The way that small children ask &#8220;Why?&#8221; at any opportunity never went away for me. I&#8217;m learning to channel my curiosity into research that will fill the gaps in academic research and recording of the steelpan and the culture(s) surrounding it.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I often get goosebumps while teaching. It&#8217;s always my goal to deliver concepts to my students in ways that they can internalise and understand. I think that memorisation and regurgitation should not be the final stops in a quality education.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I spent a while living and teaching in the Dominican Republic. I speak Spanish well enough to chat (and well enough to eavesdrop).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I have been a bookworm since I learned to read.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>My love for music extends to my curiosity about its history, its significance, importance, and its place is the hearts it came from. I think of the work I&#8217;ve begun doing in research as *taking dictation*- compiling oral histories, transcriptions, innovations where all can access. Art is meant to be shared, and this is my contribution to that communion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ll find collected here my original compositions, poetry, academic essays, and a bit of my playing. 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