{"id":5682,"date":"2011-06-22T14:23:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T14:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/06\/22\/musical-poll-casual-sax\/"},"modified":"2011-06-22T14:23:12","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T14:23:12","slug":"musical-poll-casual-sax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/06\/22\/musical-poll-casual-sax\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Poll: Casual Sax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people who rail against popular music (hipsters, classical music snobs, etc.) will cite the mere presence of one or more saxophones in a song as evidence that it sucks, as if saxophones are inherently evil. I&#8217;ve never really understood this attitude, and wonder how widespread it is. Thus, a poll:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/5166474.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/poll\/5166474\/\">Saxophone solos in popular music are:<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/features-surveys\/\">Market Research<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>(The proximate cause of this was some clueless ranting on a pseudonymous LiveJournal, and the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/19\/arts\/music\/clarence-clemons-e-street-band-saxophonist-dies-at-69.html\">death of Clarence Clemons<\/a>, but it&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve wondered about for a long while, and been keeping in reserve for a day when I needed a poll question.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people who rail against popular music (hipsters, classical music snobs, etc.) will cite the mere presence of one or more saxophones in a song as evidence that it sucks, as if saxophones are inherently evil. I&#8217;ve never really understood this attitude, and wonder how widespread it is. Thus, a poll: Saxophone solos&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/06\/22\/musical-poll-casual-sax\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Musical Poll: Casual Sax<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,137,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-polls","category-pop_culture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}