{"id":5878,"date":"2020-05-29T15:55:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T05:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=5878"},"modified":"2020-05-29T15:59:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T05:59:58","slug":"a-lock-of-beethovens-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5878","title":{"rendered":"A lock of Beethoven&#8217;s hair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Once a devoted admirer, wife of a Vienna pianist, longed for a lock of the composer&#8217;s outrageously unkempt hair, and asked a friend to get her one.  At his suggestion, Beethoven, who was a practical joker of boorish capabilities, sent her a tuft from the chin of a goat.  The trick was discovered, and the scorned woman vented her fury in a letter; the repentant Beethoven made ample apology to her, and spent his wrath on the head of the suggester of the mischief.  <br><br>Hughes, Rupert (2004) <em>The Love Affairs of Great Musicians<\/em>, vol. I. Project Guttenburg. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/10957\">https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/10957<\/a>. Accessed 24 May 2007.<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once a devoted admirer, wife of a Vienna pianist, longed for a lock of the composer&#8217;s outrageously unkempt hair, and asked a friend to get her one. At his suggestion, Beethoven, who was a practical joker of boorish capabilities, sent her a tuft from the chin of a goat. The trick was discovered, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personalities-of-the-musicians"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5881,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878\/revisions\/5881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}