{"id":403947,"date":"2017-11-15T10:20:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T14:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=0c0702a10a2f52cd6119507142f1f43a"},"modified":"2017-11-15T10:20:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T14:20:55","slug":"have-scientists-found-a-secret-chord-for-happy-songs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=403947","title":{"rendered":"Have scientists found a secret chord for happy songs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the BBC radio comedy show I&#8217;m Sorry I Haven&#8217;t A Clue, panellists are sometimes asked to sing &#8220;one song to the tune of another&#8221;. Hilarious results ensue when the words of one song fit the rhythm and metre of the other but they have completely different sentiments: Jabberwocky and Jerusalem, for example. The game works because audiences recognise the disconnect between the sentiment of the lyrics and the music. Everyone knows that a good tune needs not just to fit the rhythm of the words but to convey something appropriate to their meaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the BBC radio comedy show I&#8217;m Sorry I Haven&#8217;t A Clue, panellists are sometimes asked to sing &#8220;one song to the tune of another&#8221;. Hilarious results ensue when the words of one song fit the rhythm and metre of the other but they have completely differe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=403947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403948,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403947\/revisions\/403948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}