{"id":90,"date":"2015-05-09T11:17:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T15:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/?p=90"},"modified":"2015-05-09T11:20:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T15:20:28","slug":"your-feets-too-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/tdc\/your-feets-too-big\/","title":{"rendered":"Your feet&#8217;s too big"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tdc.ds106.us\/tdc1180\/\">Daily Create 1180<\/a> asked us to create a soundmap of our town. Instead of following the prompt as written, I picked one moment in my day &#8211; walking home in the early afternoon from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krudascubensi.com\/\">Krudas Cubensi<\/a> concert at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenyon.edu\/middle-path\/story\/music-with-a-message\/\">Kenyon College<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was early April &#8211; the trees were starting to bud, and you can hear a light spring breeze blowing through the microphone at places. The birds have returned, and you can hear them chattering at each other. But it&#8217;s too early for the hum of lawnmowers, not warm enough yet for the drone of air conditioners. Gambier is a rural town; I think in the 6 minute walk you&#8217;ll hear 3 cars go by.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F204667248&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;visual=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;color=ff5500\"><\/iframe>\n<p>You&#8217;ll also hear my feet. Boy, will you hear my feet. I really thought I was holding my iPhone high enough to not get so much of that noise, but apparently not. So, there&#8217;s an excuse to learn something new &#8211; I opened up the graphic equalizer in GarageBand, turned on the analyzer so I could see where the frequencies of my footfalls lay, and turned those ranges down. They&#8217;re still prominent &#8211; it is a walk, after all &#8211; but I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re as dominant as they were in the original.<\/p>\n<p>This is my walk to work. I&#8217;ve probably taken it more than 4,000 times. But I usually take it with my headphones on and music or a podcast going, so I miss these sounds &#8211; which means I miss the chance to contemplate the seasons and the neighborhood. I appreciate TDC reminding me that there is value in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=6153012\">taking a walk just to listen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/6153012\/6153127\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Create 1180 asked us to create a soundmap of our town. Instead of following the prompt as written, I picked one moment in my day &#8211; walking home in the early afternoon from a Krudas Cubensi concert at Kenyon College. It was early April &#8211; the trees were starting to bud, and you can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/tdc\/your-feets-too-big\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Your feet&#8217;s too big<\/span> <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":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-tdc","category-ds106-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p53vXx-1s","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}