{"id":5500,"date":"2015-01-28T08:43:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T15:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=5500"},"modified":"2015-01-28T08:43:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T15:43:37","slug":"an-ear-for-an-ear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=5500","title":{"rendered":"An ear for an ear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ear.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5503\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ear.jpg?resize=500%2C252&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Trio 2\" width=\"500\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ear.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ear.jpg?resize=300%2C151&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In <em>Vocal Apparitions<\/em>, Michal Grover-Friedlander <a href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/7972.html\">describes<\/a>\u00a0the origins of our\u00a0modern communication network:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1874 Alexander Bell invented the first model of a phone receiver using an ear membrane taken from a human corpse&#8217;s ear. The first telephone receiver was, in fact, a human ear, a machine that transmitted a living human voice by way of a dead human&#8217;s ear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The words of a dead man,&#8221; wrote W. H. Auden, &#8220;Are modified in the guts of the living.&#8221; The reverse, it would seem, is also true.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: Still from &#8220;Blue Velvet.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Vocal Apparitions, Michal Grover-Friedlander describes\u00a0the origins of our\u00a0modern communication network: In 1874 Alexander Bell invented the first model of a phone receiver using an ear membrane taken from a human corpse&#8217;s ear. The first telephone receiver was, in fact, a human ear, a machine that transmitted a living human voice by way of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5500"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5504,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5500\/revisions\/5504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}