{"id":1676,"date":"2011-01-17T20:39:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T03:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2010-07-04T18:34:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T01:34:19","slug":"benjamin-franklins-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1676","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Franklin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #333333; font-size: 11pt;\">This elder statesman of the American Revolution was born in 1706. He was the oldest signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Franklin was also a scientist, diplomat, author, printer, publisher, philosopher, philanthropist, and inventor. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #333333; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #333333; font-size: 11pt;\">One of the things Franklin invented was a musical instrument called the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glass_harmonica\">armonica<\/a>.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Franklin&#8217;s inspiration for the instrument came during a visit to London in 1757, where musical compositions were performed on drinking glasses of various sizes arranged in a row and filled with varying amounts of water. This gave each glass a different pitch. Franklin created a new form of the instrument capable of more tones, and that was easier to play.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #333333; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #333333; font-size: 11pt;\">Build your own armonica by filling different sized glasses with varying amounts of water. Slide your finger around each rim and listen to the music each glass makes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #333333; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #333333; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">To learn more about Benjamin Franklin, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/bensguide.gpo.gov\/benfranklin\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; color: #ff9900;\">Ben&#8217;s Guide<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This elder statesman of the American Revolution was born in 1706. He was the oldest signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Franklin was also a scientist, diplomat, author, printer, publisher, philosopher, philanthropist, and inventor. \u00c2\u00a0 One of the things Franklin invented was a musical instrument called the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153armonica.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Franklin&#8217;s inspiration for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,32,22,10,16,63,15,68,12],"tags":[155,154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3644,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions\/3644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}