{"id":117,"date":"2006-03-17T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=117"},"modified":"2006-03-17T14:12:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-17T14:12:00","slug":"when-youre-smiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"When you&#8217;re smiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What with the cold weather and assorted other things I&#8217;ve noticed if I&#8217;m not smiling (or on the positive side of neutral) when I&#8217;m wearing earphones the sound is much flatter and deadened. It must be because smiling pushes your ears out slightly and changes the resonant space in your ear slightly.<br \/>\nMaybe the &#8216;iPod effect&#8217; is owners of new toys being happy whilst listening to their music and noticing the improvement in the sound. Maybe it&#8217;s not smugness after all, just satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p>Talking of which I think African Head Charge&#8217;s &#8216;Hymn&#8217; must be the happiest piece of music I&#8217;ve heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What with the cold weather and assorted other things I&#8217;ve noticed if I&#8217;m not smiling (or on the positive side of neutral) when I&#8217;m wearing earphones the sound is much flatter and deadened. It must be because smiling pushes your ears out slightly and changes the resonant space in your ear slightly. Maybe the &#8216;iPod [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}