{"id":1796,"date":"2025-05-08T12:11:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T17:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2025-05-08T12:11:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T17:11:59","slug":"museum-of-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/2025\/05\/museum-of-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum of Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What noises should we save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the museum of historic sounds?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The beautiful calls of song birds<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">preserved before extinction?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The burbling of gushing streams<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">before the silencing of drought?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The whispering of rustling leaves<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">before the susurration ceases?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet good vibrations will long abide<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in our changing lives. Record instead\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">experiences that shortly will be lost:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the motor mower on a Sunday morning;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a diesel truck straining with its load;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">combustion engines of peak-hour traffic;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the noises powered by fossil fuels<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that will soon depart this world.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What noises should we save in the museum of historic sounds? The beautiful calls of song birds preserved before extinction? The burbling of gushing streams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1798,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions\/1798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}