{"id":2463,"date":"2009-07-28T10:19:07","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T17:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/07\/28\/playing-the-audience-like-a-xylophone\/"},"modified":"2009-07-28T10:19:07","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T17:19:07","slug":"playing-the-audience-like-a-xylophone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/28\/playing-the-audience-like-a-xylophone\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing the Audience Like a Xylophone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was originally relegated to a <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmcarroll\">tweet<\/a>, but it deserves to be elevated to a blog post.  Bobby McFerrin, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/5732745\">World Science Festival<\/a>, demonstrating the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pentatonic_scale\">pentatonic scale<\/a>.  A rare combination of joy, passion, and teaching.  I dare you not to smile at the 0:42 mark.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/5732745\">World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user1103909\">World Science Festival<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was originally relegated to a tweet, but it deserves to be elevated to a blog post. Bobby McFerrin, at the World Science Festival, demonstrating the pentatonic scale. A rare combination of joy, passion, and teaching. I dare you not to smile at the 0:42 mark. World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}