{"id":4144,"date":"2026-01-19T19:11:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/?p=4144"},"modified":"2026-01-19T19:11:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:11:52","slug":"gideon-okai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/2026\/01\/19\/gideon-okai\/","title":{"rendered":"Gideon Okai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hello my name is Gideon Okai. I am a British Ghanaian. Im majoring in computer science with a minor in music. I play five different musical instruments, but for now my main focus is the piano. I currently live in Chicago, Illinois. So I would say that Im a musically inclined person, I like to produce and make music arrangements for live performances and shows especially for music artists. I also specialize in doing playback engineering and sound engineering. So moral of the story music is something that is a passion\/ hobby for me but it&#8217;s also a side hustle and a job. Apart from music I like to workout I do my best to stay in shape and be active. I like to play soccer, basketball, and football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" data-id=\"4169\" src=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2026\/01\/54391496-9f39-4ab8-b7ee-fccd8847f843_Original-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2026\/01\/54391496-9f39-4ab8-b7ee-fccd8847f843_Original-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2026\/01\/54391496-9f39-4ab8-b7ee-fccd8847f843_Original-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2026\/01\/54391496-9f39-4ab8-b7ee-fccd8847f843_Original-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2026\/01\/54391496-9f39-4ab8-b7ee-fccd8847f843_Original-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2026\/01\/54391496-9f39-4ab8-b7ee-fccd8847f843_Original-676x450.jpg 676w, https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2026\/01\/54391496-9f39-4ab8-b7ee-fccd8847f843_Original.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I chose this picture because drums was the first instrument that I started my musical journey with before I started I started playing 4 different other instruments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello my name is Gideon Okai. I am a British Ghanaian. Im majoring in computer science with a minor in music. I play five different musical instruments, but for now my main focus is the piano. I currently live in Chicago, Illinois. So I would say that Im a musically inclined person, I like to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":834,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/834"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4170,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144\/revisions\/4170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}