{"id":399,"date":"2013-07-12T08:50:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T08:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldgarcia.com\/wordpress\/?p=399"},"modified":"2013-07-12T09:18:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T09:18:47","slug":"when-choirs-sing-many-hearts-beat-as-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"When Choirs Sing, Many Hearts Beat As One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/health\/2013\/07\/09\/200390454\/when-choirs-sing-many-hearts-beat-as-one\">When Choirs Sing, Many Hearts Beat As One<br \/>\n<\/a><em>&#8220;it took almost no time at all for the singers&#8217; heart rates to become synchronized. The readout from the pulse monitors starts as a jumble of jagged lines, but quickly becomes a series of uniform peaks. The heart rates fall into a shared rhythm guided by the song&#8217;s tempo<\/em><em>&#8220;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>This has been around a while now, but is still interesting. I wonder if anyone has measured heart rates of supporters at a football or tennis match.<br \/>\nDo guitar ensemble players live longer than soloists? (Only if they follow the conductor!)<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/health\/2013\/07\/09\/200390454\/when-choirs-sing-many-hearts-beat-as-one\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"Choir\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2013\/07\/09\/91375168_wide-cde52e0b5c255844d5814d59d63a1a2965e7462c-s40.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Choirs Sing, Many Hearts Beat As One &#8220;it took almost no time at all for the singers&#8217; heart rates to become synchronized. The readout from the pulse monitors starts as a jumble of jagged lines, but quickly becomes a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=399\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,4,77,41,24],"tags":[79,120,119,20,118,117],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/247767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}