{"id":462,"date":"2007-11-19T01:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=462"},"modified":"2007-11-19T01:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T01:17:00","slug":"db","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2007\/11\/19\/db\/","title":{"rendered":"dB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog4\/loud1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>We were invited to attend the graduation ceremonies of the Colegio Blaise Pascal as one of our church members \/ students was graduating from computer studies. We attended, dutifully. I don&#8217;t even remember having desire to attend anyone&#8217;s graduation. Ever. Not even my two grads.<\/p>\n<p>It was LOUD. Really LOUD. We couldn&#8217;t even shout at each other to be understood. This was just the prelude music. It was as if they were pumping up a crowd for some concert or boxing match. <\/p>\n<p>What is most ironic is that the sound is very bad. Feedback on occasion, but the music is clipping all the time. And then a man occasionally interrupts the music with some mundane announcement.<\/p>\n<p>A couple weeks ago, I attended another graduation and they had big band and jazz music playing throughout the entire service.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog4\/loud2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>This is during the national anthem.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog4\/loud3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The ceremony was being broadcast LIVE on a local radio station via cell phone. The announcer wasn&#8217;t getting any messages from home base, but if I were home base, I would have just stuck on a CD and killed the show citing sound quality issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were invited to attend the graduation ceremonies of the Colegio Blaise Pascal as one of our church members \/ students was graduating from computer studies. We attended, dutifully. I don&#8217;t even remember having desire to attend anyone&#8217;s graduation. Ever. Not even my two grads. It was LOUD. Really LOUD. We couldn&#8217;t even shout at &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2007\/11\/19\/db\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,25,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-admin","post-462","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guatemala","category-random","category-zr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}