{"id":1641,"date":"2012-07-22T19:02:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T19:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=1641"},"modified":"2012-07-22T19:02:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T19:02:51","slug":"blood-makes-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=1641","title":{"rendered":"Blood Makes Noise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who knows me, knows that encroaching deafness is one of my issues.\u00a0 Amongst other things it means that big gigs are out of the question since I cannot afford to lose any more sensitivity in my left ear.<\/p>\n<p>However, as documented, we recently went to hear Suzanne Vega in Glasgow and this song was played. I had forgotten how well it explains the mental state of deafness, even though I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s what it was written about.\u00a0 <a title=\"Blood Makes Noise\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZcwjrZWyV6s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blood Makes Noise<\/a>.\u00a0 Think tinnitus, think fear in the face of the inability to decipher the vocal clues being given to you in speech, especially when people turn their faces away.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to ask RNID to make a badge which says &#8220;I&#8217;m deaf, not stupid. Speak up.&#8221;\u00a0 I can recall being shouted at back in 1989 by a colleague.\u00a0 &#8220;Haw deefie, gonny listen?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who knows me, knows that encroaching deafness is one of my issues.\u00a0 Amongst other things it means that big gigs are out of the question since I cannot afford to lose any more sensitivity in my left ear. However, as documented, we recently went to hear Suzanne Vega in Glasgow and this song was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kirsty","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}