{"id":3458,"date":"2007-08-14T11:47:23","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T18:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=3458"},"modified":"2007-08-14T11:47:23","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T18:47:23","slug":"its-like-aaaoooooooooooooo-but-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2007\/08\/14\/its-like-aaaoooooooooooooo-but-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It&#8217;s Like &#8216;AAAOOOooooooooooo&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8217; But Forever!&#8221;*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was with a bar with a friend and, after a few beers, attempted to describe the <a href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shepard_tone'>Shepard Scale<\/a> to her.<\/p>\n<p>It was difficult.  Eventually I pretty much gave up and resorted to Lovecraft-like allusions. &#8220;It&#8217;s like a color that shouldn&#8217;t exist,&#8221; I said. &#8220;Or an angle that doesn&#8217;t add up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here is is:  <a href='http:\/\/tools.wikimedia.de\/~gmaxwell\/jorbis\/JOrbisPlayer.php?path=DescenteInfinie.ogg&#038;wiki=en'>The Shepard Scale<\/a>. Note:  ogg file; profoundly unsettling; may induce insanity.<\/p>\n<p><span class='footnote'>* This was <a href='http:\/\/www.kokogiak.com\/'>Alan Taylor&#8217;s<\/a> attempt at describing it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was with a bar with a friend and, after a few beers, attempted to describe the Shepard Scale to her. It was difficult. Eventually I pretty much gave up and resorted to Lovecraft-like allusions. &#8220;It&#8217;s like a color that shouldn&#8217;t exist,&#8221; I said. &#8220;Or an angle that doesn&#8217;t add up.&#8221; Here is is: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}