{"id":1510,"date":"2007-07-15T11:55:34","date_gmt":"2007-07-15T15:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/15\/thunderstorms-and-ipods\/"},"modified":"2014-09-15T23:22:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T03:22:36","slug":"thunderstorms-and-ipods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/15\/thunderstorms-and-ipods\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderstorms and iPods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/content.nejm.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/357\/2\/198?query=TOC\">The New England Journal of Medicine<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/emperor.tidbits.com\/webx\/TidBITS\/Talk\/1376\/0\">TidBITS Talk<\/a>):\r\n<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/content.nejm.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/357\/2\/198?query=TOC\">\r\n<p>\r\nThe potential for permanent hearing loss due to prolonged use of personal stereo equipment, such as portable compact-disk or MP3 players, at high decibel levels has been well described in the literature. We have recently become aware of an additional, albeit uncommon, hazard associated with the use of such devices.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bynkii.com\">John C. Welch<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nWow, so wearing what amounts to a big charged antenna near your head when\r\nthere&rsquo;s a ton of static electricity in the air is a bad idea.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nWho knew?\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New England Journal of Medicine (via TidBITS Talk): The potential for permanent hearing loss due to prolonged use of personal stereo equipment, such as portable compact-disk or MP3 players, at high decibel levels has been well described in the literature. We have recently become aware of an additional, albeit uncommon, hazard associated with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[108,792],"class_list":["post-1510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-earbuds","tag-ipod"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9613,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions\/9613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}