{"id":26491,"date":"2024-05-21T09:36:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T14:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=26491"},"modified":"2024-05-21T09:36:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T14:36:01","slug":"undetected-earworm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=26491","title":{"rendered":"Undetected earworm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I suddenly realized that I had been playing the same song over in my head for about an hour. And that is a startling thing to realize.<\/p>\n<p>I guess on some level I had been aware that it was happening, but other things were going on, and so somehow I hadn&#8217;t really noticed. But then when I <i>did<\/i> notice, I became conscious of just how long that same tune had been playing non-stop in my head.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how common this is, the sudden realization that you&#8217;ve been harboring an undetected earworm. Maybe there is something in our brains that tries its best to protect us from this knowledge, lest we go mad.<\/p>\n<p>If that is the case, then maybe we experience a lot more earworms than we ever realize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I suddenly realized that I had been playing the same song over in my head for about an hour. And that is a startling thing to realize. I guess on some level I had been aware that it was happening, but other things were going on, and so somehow I hadn&#8217;t really noticed. But &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=26491\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Undetected earworm&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26491"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26492,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26491\/revisions\/26492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}