{"id":2260,"date":"2009-07-29T23:47:22","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T03:47:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-07-29T23:47:22","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T23:47:22","slug":"inappropriate-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/inappropriate-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Inappropriate Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/townhallvega2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">You were expecting Wham?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This afternoon I found myself back in the dentist&#8217;s chair. Part of my four-session, four-figure, root canal journey. It&#8217;s not all that pleasant to have the inside of a tooth filed clean. Even when it has been heavily sedated. <\/p>\n<p>But the whole situation was made worse &#8211; much, much worse by the soundtrack. Dentists of course always want nice relaxing background music. Maybe some warbling <em>[cough]<\/em> r&#8217;n&#8217;b, or classic hits to hum along to as they drill and fill. Maybe a little <strong>Erik Satie<\/strong>. So what was the sound that had me begging for mercy in the dentist&#8217;s chair? Right now it is July. I am in Australia. The dental music of choice? It was &#8220;Last Christmas,&#8221; by <strong>Wham<\/strong>. Yes, during root canal. <\/p>\n<p>The question is, have Town Hall members had similar inappropriate music moments?<\/p>\n<p>(Please note: I spared you a link to any video connected to any of the above.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You were expecting Wham? This afternoon I found myself back in the dentist&#8217;s chair. Part of my four-session, four-figure, root canal journey. It&#8217;s not all that pleasant to have the inside of a tooth filed clean. Even when it has been heavily sedated. But the whole situation was made worse &#8211; much, much worse by <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/inappropriate-music\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":339,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}