{"id":7626,"date":"2023-07-21T11:50:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T09:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/?p=7626"},"modified":"2023-07-21T11:53:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T09:53:45","slug":"the-phono-gram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/2023\/07\/21\/the-phono-gram\/","title":{"rendered":"The Phono Gram"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Late-night free-floating anxiety is not a modern phenomenon. One of my favourite descriptions of it is Dorothy Parker&#8217;s 1933 short story called &#8220;The Little Hours&#8221;, published in The New Yorker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, more than 30 years before this, <a href=\"https:\/\/worldradiohistory.com\/Archive-Early-Radio-Assorted\/Phono-Gram-1900-2-Issues.pdf\">The Phono Gram<\/a> magazine published the following, which a Dr. J. Leonard Corning proposed to cure the problem of late-night melancholy with what we would, today, called a &#8220;pair of headphones&#8221; (although the design that he describes probably wouldn&#8217;t sell well to anyone who is <em>not<\/em> interested in S&amp;M&#8230;) playing Wagnerian arpeggios and minor chords. (Personally, I just put the timer on my iPhone to turn off after 30 minutes, and turn on an old episode of &#8220;QI&#8221; or &#8220;8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown&#8221; &#8211; Sean Lock&#8217;s voice drowns out my own internal ones.)<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/phonogram_01-686x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7627\" width=\"520\" height=\"768\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">I&#8217;ve removed a rather significant portion here&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/phonogram_02-749x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7628\" width=\"520\" height=\"768\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/phonogram_03-1024x468.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7629\" width=\"520\" height=\"300\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late-night free-floating anxiety is not a modern phenomenon. One of my favourite descriptions of it is Dorothy Parker&#8217;s 1933 short story called &#8220;The Little Hours&#8221;, published in The New Yorker. However, more than 30 years before this, The Phono Gram magazine published the following, which a Dr. J. Leonard Corning proposed to cure the problem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,52,25,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-health","category-history","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p48hIM-1Z0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7626"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7634,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626\/revisions\/7634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}