{"id":803,"date":"2006-11-20T09:55:19","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T14:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/20\/a-website-to-smash-all-of-your-dreams-of-stardom\/"},"modified":"2006-11-20T09:55:19","modified_gmt":"2006-11-20T14:55:19","slug":"a-website-to-smash-all-of-your-dreams-of-stardom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/20\/a-website-to-smash-all-of-your-dreams-of-stardom\/","title":{"rendered":"A website to smash all of your dreams of stardom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all know you sing in the shower, and in the car when you are alone.  It&#8217;s ok, don&#8217;t worry.  As long as you sing alone there&#8217;s no trouble.  The problem starts when you think you want to sing for other people&#8230;..  That&#8217;s my problem anyway.  It seems that if I have a beer or two I think it&#8217;s a great idea to pick up a guitar and start singing and playing.  The problem has always been that I&#8217;m not good at it.  I have breezily discounted that as a result of being tone deaf.  I was safe thinking, I&#8217;m bad at singing but I have a reason, like a doctor&#8217;s note.  Anyway, I saw this little online test for tone-deafness and it just ruined my whole day.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not short (maybe 6min), but it&#8217;s pretty cool.  I finished the test with 70% which means I&#8217;m actually not tone deaf at all, really.  It&#8217;s quite hard actually, it will have you second guessing yourself.  I think you would do well to use headphones while taking it (I did not).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jakemandell.com\/tonedeaf\/\">Check it out<\/a> for yourself, just don&#8217;t cry like I did.<\/p>\n<p>I saw this first on <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/\">LifeHacker<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know you sing in the shower, and in the car when you are alone. It&#8217;s ok, don&#8217;t worry. As long as you sing alone there&#8217;s no trouble. The problem starts when you think you want to sing for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/20\/a-website-to-smash-all-of-your-dreams-of-stardom\/\">Continue reading <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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-cX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}