{"id":1994,"date":"2010-12-22T08:33:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T15:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2010-12-22T08:36:05","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T15:36:05","slug":"merry-8-bit-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/22\/merry-8-bit-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry (8-Bit) Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1996\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1996\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1996\" title=\"belizeXmasTree\" src=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/belizeXmasTree.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/belizeXmasTree.jpg 280w, https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/belizeXmasTree-145x145.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Who knew pine trees grew on sandy Caribbean atolls?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This sound was recorded on Christmas Eve in 2008, on a tiny speck of sand and palm trees in the Caribbean called Glover&#8217;s Reef, at the edge of an atoll dozens of miles off the coast of Belize. Someone had hauled a pine tree to the island and decorated it. While palm trees swayed in the wind and the surf broke all around (which you can hear in the background), a small Christmas card sound chip strapped to the tree &#8211; so small I couldn&#8217;t find it in the dark &#8211; played ultra-low-quality Christmas carols all night long.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>[I have featured <a href=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/20\/music-of-the-garinagu\/\" target=\"_blank\">other<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/10\/caribbean-creaking\/\" target=\"_blank\">interesting<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/08\/belize-dawn-chorus\/\" target=\"_blank\"> recordings <\/a>from Belize before.]<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hope your holiday season, no matter what your persuasion, is filled with love and peace&#8230;and a decent signal-to-noise ratio. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p>[soundcloud url=&#8221;http:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/8225448&#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, 90\u00c2\u00b0 capsule spread]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sound was recorded on Christmas Eve in 2008, on a tiny speck of sand and palm trees in the Caribbean called Glover&#8217;s Reef, at the edge of an atoll dozens of miles off the coast of Belize. Someone had hauled a pine tree to the island and decorated it. While palm trees swayed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994"}],"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=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2023,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/2023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}