{"id":7211,"date":"2016-04-01T21:06:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T20:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=7211"},"modified":"2016-04-05T21:17:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T20:17:42","slug":"daily_516_-_disco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2016\/04\/01\/daily_516_-_disco\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 516 &#8211; disco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily\/0516_disco_club.jpg\" class=\"x4y6\" \/><br \/>\nI joined a colleague for a Friday night out at a club &#8211; <a href=\"www.soultrain-stockholm.se\">Soul Train<\/a>. More of an evening club than a nightclub, really, since they opened at 19:00 and closed at 22:00. An after work disco, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>The photo shows the official photographer at the club. We took photos of each other.<\/p>\n<p>The whole thing was kind of fun but oh my god the sound level. If this is what other people regularly subject their ears to, it&#8217;s a wonder that they are not all deaf. I put in earplugs (which I always have in my handbag) the moment I got there &#8211; had it not been for those, I would have lasted a few minutes, tops.<\/p>\n<p>I do not understand the point of turning up the volume to 11. Yes, loud music sounds better and is more danceable than quiet music, but only up to a point. At this volume and probably with cheapish speakers to boot, the music just sounds atrocious, with distortion and crackling bass. You cannot speak to your friends; you cannot even order a drink without yelling. Where is the fun in that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I joined a colleague for a Friday night out at a club &#8211; Soul Train. More of an evening club than a nightclub, really, since they opened at 19:00 and closed at 22:00. An after work disco, I guess. The photo shows the official photographer at the club. We took photos of each other. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18,5,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art_entertainment","category-dailies","category-music","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7214,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211\/revisions\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}