{"id":6878,"date":"2007-02-06T15:17:59","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T05:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/2007\/02\/06\/decibels\/"},"modified":"2007-10-25T12:44:55","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T02:44:55","slug":"decibels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/2007\/02\/06\/decibels\/","title":{"rendered":"Decibels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve known for a while that decibels are the way you measure noise, at least I think that&#8217;s what the Police officer was telling me as I tried to turn down my guitar amp all those years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I just stumbled across <a href=\"http:\/\/home.new.rr.com\/trumpetb\/audio\/dBexamp.html\">this really nice table<\/a>, which lists decibel levels and correlates them with things that you can relate to. For example, apparently 20db is the sound of a whisper, whereas 115db is loud rock music, 60db is a noisy office etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve known for a while that decibels are the way you measure noise, at least I think that&#8217;s what the Police officer was telling me as I tried to turn down my guitar amp all those years ago. Anyway, I just stumbled across this really nice table, which lists decibel levels and correlates them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}