{"id":512,"date":"2009-03-13T19:13:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T23:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=512"},"modified":"2009-03-13T19:18:05","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T23:18:05","slug":"robot-violinist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2009\/03\/13\/robot-violinist\/","title":{"rendered":"A Robot Violinist That Plays Better Than Your Kid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard some bad violinists in my day &#8230; especially back when I substitute-taught elementary school music classes. But amazingly enough, this <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EzjkBwZtxp4&#038;e\" >robot violinist<\/a> (while lousy, of course) is better than your average fifth grade violin student.   <\/p>\n<p>In honor of the robot violinist, I&#8217;ve written a double limerick:<\/p>\n<p>A Robot Violinist That Plays Better Than Your Kid?<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Fanatics may think it&#8217;s a sin<br \/>\nFor a robot to play violin.<br \/>\nBut its tone ain&#8217;t as bad<br \/>\nAs some students I&#8217;ve had.<br \/>\nIn a contest with them, it would win.<\/p>\n<p>Yes it&#8217;s weak in vibrato and phrasing.<br \/>\nBut its rhythm and pitch are amazing.<br \/>\nSo you&#8217;re robot averse &#8212;<br \/>\nI&#8217;m still sure you&#8217;ve heard worse.<br \/>\nAnd if not, I shall brace for the hazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard some bad violinists in my day &#8230; especially back when I substitute-taught elementary school music classes. But amazingly enough, this robot violinist (while lousy, of course) is better than your average fifth grade violin student. In honor of the robot violinist, I&#8217;ve written a double limerick: A Robot Violinist That Plays Better Than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,15,39,42,24,262,44,3],"tags":[274,224,267,265,269,271,264,263,273,272,268,225,270,266],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}