{"id":23575,"date":"2016-04-25T21:16:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T20:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=23575"},"modified":"2016-04-25T21:16:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T20:16:52","slug":"30-day-song-challenge-day-10-which-song-makes-you-fall-asleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/25\/30-day-song-challenge-day-10-which-song-makes-you-fall-asleep\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Day Song Challenge: Day 10 &#8211; Which song makes you fall asleep?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might have guessed by now that different forms of music fill my appetite for various reasons. I don&#8217;t really listen to music to fall asleep. I listen to it to learn, to relax, to immerse, to thrill&#8230; but never to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>I found this almost impossible, so I went for this piece of Beethoven; his String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, performed by The Alexander String Quartet, accompanied by an animated gra<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">phical score.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Parts of it &#8211; movements 1 and 6 &#8211; are simply fabulous and will speak to your soul (I hope). The others are sublime too but don&#8217;t really fulfil the brief for today, whereas 1 and 6 could do so.<\/p>\n<p>For those short of time, the first movement starts at the beginning and the sixth movement starts at 29:01.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1165\" height=\"656\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2OQgFr5m8e8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might have guessed by now that different forms of music fill my appetite for various reasons. I don&#8217;t really listen to music to fall asleep. I listen to it to learn, to relax, to immerse, to thrill&#8230; but never to sleep. I found this almost impossible, so I went for this piece of Beethoven; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3355,20],"tags":[3597,3630,3632,2083,3584,3631,3633],"class_list":["post-23575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-3355","category-music","tag-30-day-song-challenge","tag-beethoven","tag-c-sharp-minor","tag-music-2","tag-string-quartet","tag-string-quartet-no-14-in-c-sharp-minor","tag-the-alexander-string-quartet","post_format-post-format-audio","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-68f","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23576,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23575\/revisions\/23576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}