{"id":173,"date":"2009-04-29T01:43:49","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T05:43:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-02-02T00:39:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T05:39:02","slug":"culture-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Culture Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last night I had the sudden realization that I had NO IDEA what the US Top 40 chart looked like, so I went and found <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/top40-charts.com\/chart.php?cid=27\" href=\"http:\/\/top40-charts.com\/chart.php?cid=27\">a listing<\/a>.  Turns out I only recognized 5 tracks out of the 40. I then proceeded to ask around; of the 6 quick responses I got, individuals recognized an average of 4.5 tracks, with a spread from 0 to 11.  Either I know very cultured people, or the Internet really is making radio irrelevant. Or some partial mixture thereof.  I&#8217;d be curious how other people do.<br \/>\nThe second part of the experiment was trying to listen through the whole list.  It really is godawful, I ended up stopping over half the tracks before they finished because I just couldn&#8217;t stand it, and I only made it to about #30 before I gave up.  Perhaps my generation is becoming old. Damn kids, get off my lawn?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I had the sudden realization that I had NO IDEA what the US Top 40 chart looked like, so I went and found a listing. Turns out I only recognized 5 tracks out of the 40. I then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=173\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,9,7,12],"tags":[105],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-general","category-music","category-navel-gazing","category-oldblog","tag-top40"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}