{"id":361,"date":"2006-02-03T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=361"},"modified":"2006-02-03T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-03T09:05:00","slug":"today_in_the_wall_street_journ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2006\/02\/today_in_the_wall_street_journ\/","title":{"rendered":"Today In The Wall Street Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My piece in this morning&#8217;s <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> is about the brain connection between music and sports.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As someone who writes about and plays music, I would be the last to disagree with William Congreve that music hath charms. But silence has charms, too, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s getting hard to find. When Congreve wrote his famous line, circa 1700, people who wanted music had to make it themselves or go find it. The technological revolution in the past century changed that. Now music pursues us in the supermarket, the gas station, The Gap, the dentist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office, the elevator, even the street. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bad news when I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m trying to think, let alone write. But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good news when I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m on the NordicTrack; the steady beat of music makes the workout easier. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not the only one who feels this way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sorry, I can&#8217;t link you to the rest of the article. If you&#8217;re a WSJ subscriber, you&#8217;ll find it in the print edition and on line.  Otherwise, a dollar at the newstand will get you the piece and bonuses including  the day&#8217;s news, stock market reports and artsjournal.com blogmate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/aboutlastnight\/archives20060129.shtml#104883\"target=\"_blank\">Terry Teachout<\/a>&#8216;s theater reviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My piece in this morning&#8217;s Wall Street Journal is about the brain connection between music and sports. As someone who writes about and plays music, I would be the last to disagree with William Congreve that music hath charms. But silence has charms, too, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s getting hard to find. When Congreve wrote his famous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}