{"id":118,"date":"2007-08-10T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2d823b65bb.nxcli.io\/2007\/08\/the-most-recognized-tune-of-all-time.html"},"modified":"2010-12-13T14:23:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T19:23:43","slug":"most-recognized-tune-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/most-recognized-tune-of-all-time.html","title":{"rendered":"The most recognized tune of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simple question.  What tune would you say is the most recognized tune?  If we limited ourselves to the United States and the present day, the answer might be &#8220;Happy Birthday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What if we included all time and all nations?  &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; goes back to only 1893.   Some tunes are much older, like &#8220;Greensleeves,&#8221; (16th century) but well-known in only some nations.  While others have global reach, but are of more recent vintage, like McCartney&#8217;s &#8220;Yesterday&#8221; (1965).<\/p>\n<p>So what do you get if you account for both factors and try to seek the tune that the most people in history would be able to recognized, something that has great durability over time as well as a global reach?<\/p>\n<p>Any ideas?  I&#8217;ll hold my guess and post it later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simple question. What tune would you say is the most recognized tune? If we limited ourselves to the United States and the present day, the answer might be &#8220;Happy Birthday.&#8221; What if we included all time and all nations? &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; goes back to only 1893. Some tunes are much older, like &#8220;Greensleeves,&#8221; (16th century) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1942,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/1942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}