{"id":26,"date":"2002-08-28T23:33:31-04:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-29T07:33:31+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=26"},"modified":"2007-03-20T01:52:18-04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T05:52:18+00:00","slug":"singing-and-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2002\/08\/28\/singing-and-smoking\/","title":{"rendered":"Singing and&nbsp;smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>Can someone please explain to me why smoking and singing are so closely linked?  It seems to me that a singer&#8217;s greatest assets are the voice and lungs&#8230; the two things most easily and permanently harmed by the poisons in tobacco smoke.  (For that matter, I don&#8217;t know why <em>anyone<\/em> smokes any more, but that&#8217;s a different post.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking of this at the moment because I&#8217;m making plans to go to Toronto in a couple of weeks to see <a href=\"\/LenniFan\/\">Lenni Jabour and The Third Floor<\/a>.  While I&#8217;m more than happy that they&#8217;ve got a regular opportunity to perform, it&#8217;s getting harder and harder to make the trek to a place where I&#8217;m going to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cestwhat.com\/news.html#moresmoke\">subjected<\/a> to this kind of thing.  (To my knowledge, none of the group smokes.  And it&#8217;s not like I haven&#8217;t encouraged them to play elsewhere, like London or Kitchener-Waterloo.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Fortunately I live in a city that not only will soon have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city.london.on.ca\/Council\/smoking_bylaw.htm\">100% smoking ban in public places<\/a>, but already has some sensible businesses&mdash;like <strong>Maggie&#8217;s<\/strong> and <strong>CopperField&#8217;s<\/strong>&mdash;that are smoke-free and book great live music.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Can someone please explain to me why smoking and singing are so closely linked? It seems to me that a singer&#8217;s greatest assets are the voice and lungs&#8230; the two things most easily and permanently harmed by the poisons in tobacco smoke. (For that matter, I don&#8217;t know why anyone smokes any more, but that&#8217;s&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}