{"id":1353,"date":"2006-06-20T19:56:08","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T19:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2006-06-20T19:56:08","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T19:56:08","slug":"an-amazing-instrument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1353","title":{"rendered":"An amazing instrument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just walked in from the British Library 20 minutes into the England-Sweden World Cup game and switched on the radio. I knew within a couple of seconds from the strain in the commentator&#8217;s voice that things weren&#8217;t going well, before I&#8217;d heard any actual information. Isn&#8217;t the human voice an amazing instrument?<\/p>\n<p>(For anyone in Antartica the vocal strain is now diluted, since England are leading 1-0 at half-time. But Owen still has an injured knee, I should imagine.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just walked in from the British Library 20 minutes into the England-Sweden World Cup game and switched on the radio. I knew within a couple of seconds from the strain in the commentator&#8217;s voice that things weren&#8217;t going well, before I&#8217;d heard any actual information. Isn&#8217;t the human voice an amazing instrument? (For anyone in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}