{"id":1899,"date":"2010-11-16T21:39:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T04:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/?p=1899"},"modified":"2010-11-16T21:39:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T04:39:52","slug":"mexican-ceiling-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/16\/mexican-ceiling-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Ceiling Fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1900\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1900\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1900\" title=\"mexicoVilla\" src=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/mexicoVilla.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/mexicoVilla.jpg 580w, https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/mexicoVilla-290x155.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Home of the ceiling fan in question, and the weirdness that followed.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When in Mexico two years ago, the villa in which I stayed had a ceiling fan with very different voices when set to low and high. I&#8217;ve included a short sample of this fan at low, sounding like a grinding motor, and high, when the motor when silent but the blades sounded like a small helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>Weirder than this sound was the villa, which was huge and beautiful, and overlooked the beach and the Pacific Ocean. It was surrounded by a river choked with human filth. Then the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders showed up. Then I thought I would die from food poisoning. All in one day.<\/p>\n<p>True story. Tell you more over a beer sometime.\u00c2\u00a0Sorry, no cheerleader sounds were recorded.<\/p>\n<p>[soundcloud url=&#8221;http:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/7100811&#8243; params=&#8221;show_comments=true&amp;auto_play=false&amp;color=ee0000&#8243; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;81&#8243; ]<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\">[Zoom H2 recorder]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When in Mexico two years ago, the villa in which I stayed had a ceiling fan with very different voices when set to low and high. I&#8217;ve included a short sample of this fan at low, sounding like a grinding motor, and high, when the motor when silent but the blades sounded like a small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,63],"tags":[9,10,62,264,321,18,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}