{"id":144,"date":"2011-10-10T15:31:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T22:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/?p=144"},"modified":"2012-03-20T16:48:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T23:48:10","slug":"people-who-play-instruments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/144","title":{"rendered":"People Who Play Instruments"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"q2\" src=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\" alt=\"QuestionImage\" width=\"75\" height=\"91\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>I&#8217;ve heard that people who play musical instruments enjoy a greater degree of peace of mind than those who don&#8217;t. I have always been troubled by a nervous, disposition, and would like to anchor my restless mind by studying an instrument. Which instrument should I begin with?<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- from\u00a0Jane Cox, Davenport, IA<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/a2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"a2\" src=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/a2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The tuba is large, unglamorous, and ultimately does quite a job of centering those who play it. It&#8217;s hard to be emotionally all over the map with a tuba wrapped around you. The noises it makes are quite soothing, in a primal sort of way. I&#8217;ve never known an hysterical tubist. The piano, on the other hand, encourages grandiosity and hypersensitivity. Most pianists fancy themselves poets and deep thinkers, two psychic traps that lead straight to mental anguish. The clarinet is the instrument of choice for those gifted with humility. If you&#8217;re willing to look squarely at your personal assets and liabilities, then pick up that licorice stick and blow.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard that people who play musical instruments enjoy a greater degree of peace of mind than those who don&#8217;t. I have always been troubled by a nervous, disposition, and would like to anchor my restless mind by studying an instrument. Which instrument should I begin with? <span class=\"pgee-read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/144\"><br><br>---\u00a0Here&#39;s the answer from Dr. Science<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/144#comments\">2 Comments<\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions-submitted-by-dr-science-readers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}