{"id":3704,"date":"2012-02-29T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=3704"},"modified":"2012-02-29T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T10:51:00","slug":"happy-birthday-gioachino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2012\/02\/29\/happy-birthday-gioachino\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, Gioachino!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Director of Music writes<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>We should all go round whistling something from <em>William Tell<\/em> or the <em>Barber of Seville<\/em> today, as it&#8217;s Giaochino Rossini&#8217;s birthday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anorak.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/robin_hood_tax.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"138\" \/>As far as I know, he is the only composer to have been born on 29 February. Not counting all the &#8216;substitute&#8217; birthdays on February 28, how many birthdays would he have celebrated &#8211; or, how old would he have been today ?<\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='474' height='297' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V4PS8-_5UFw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2012\/02\/29\/happy-birthday-gioachino\/&amp;t=Happy birthday, Gioachino!' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Happy birthday, Gioachino!%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2012\/02\/29\/happy-birthday-gioachino\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2012\/02\/29\/happy-birthday-gioachino\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2012\/02\/29\/happy-birthday-gioachino\/&amp;title=Happy birthday, Gioachino!' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2012\/02\/29\/happy-birthday-gioachino\/&amp;title=Happy birthday, Gioachino!' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director of Music writes: We should all go round whistling something from William Tell or the Barber of Seville today, as it&#8217;s Giaochino Rossini&#8217;s birthday. As far as I know, he is the only composer to have been born on 29 February. Not counting all the &#8216;substitute&#8217; birthdays on February 28, how many birthdays &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2012\/02\/29\/happy-birthday-gioachino\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy birthday, Gioachino!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1110],"tags":[14533],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3704"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3711,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions\/3711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}