{"id":261,"date":"2007-08-28T12:14:11","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T11:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=261"},"modified":"2007-08-28T12:14:11","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T11:14:11","slug":"this-makes-me-feel-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"This makes me feel better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/8301-13580_3-9767153-39.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20\" target=\"_blank\">CNet<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The ability to identify the absolute pitch of musical notes, looks to be the product of a small number of genes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well thank science for that. Here was I thinking I was just useless when it came to identifying notes; now my failures at working out guitar chords just by listening to the song are explained away nicely.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Although perfect pitch appears to be a genetic trait, early exposure to music or musical training appears to influence its development in those with the right DNA.<\/p>\n<p>The study tested 2,213 individuals, recruited via advertisements and a Web site, and 981 of them were categorized as having perfect pitch. The study found that about as many women as men have perfect pitch&#8211;47 percent and 53 percent, respectively&#8211;and that those with perfect pitch tend to err on the sharp side as they get older.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CNet: The ability to identify the absolute pitch of musical notes, looks to be the product of a small number of genes Well thank science for that. Here was I thinking I was just useless when it came to identifying notes; now my failures at working out guitar chords just by listening to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}