{"id":318,"date":"2014-01-27T20:10:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T20:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/srmtasaskatoon.com\/?p=318"},"modified":"2014-09-23T18:08:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T18:08:18","slug":"fun-music-history-facts-adolphe-sax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srmtasaskatoon.com\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"Fun Music History Facts &#8211; Adolphe Sax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fun music history facts #1:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adolphe Sax, inventor of the Saxophone, was really accident prone. His mother&#8217;s only recorded words are: &#8220;The child is doomed to suffer; he won&#8217;t live.&#8221; Here&#8217;s some of his near death experiences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He nearly drowned<\/li>\n<li>fell headlong down three flights of stairs and cracked his head on a stone floor<\/li>\n<li>nearly got poisoned four times<\/li>\n<li>he swallowed a pin<\/li>\n<li>received severe burns from a gunpowder explosion<\/li>\n<li>burned knocking a frying pan over<\/li>\n<li>hit on the head by a falling roof-stone<\/li>\n<li>nearly asphyxiated from varnish fumes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Apparently the locals in Brussels called him &#8220;Young Sax, the Ghost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For those interested in reading more about his life, you can check out this article here, which you can access through the <a href=\"http:\/\/encore.sasklibraries.ca\/iii\/encore\/search\/C__Sadolphe%20sax__Orightresult__U1?lang=eng&amp;suite=cobalt\">Saskatoon Public Library&#8217;s website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or see if you can find a book (such as the reference book I used, &#8216;Adolphe Sax 1814-1894&#8217; by Wally Horwood)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fun music history facts #1: Adolphe Sax, inventor of the Saxophone, was really accident prone. His mother&#8217;s only recorded words are: &#8220;The child is doomed to suffer; he won&#8217;t live.&#8221; Here&#8217;s some of his near death experiences: He nearly drowned fell headlong down three flights of stairs and cracked his head on a stone floor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/srmtasaskatoon.com\/?p=318\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fun Music History Facts &#8211; Adolphe Sax&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-music-facts","tag-music-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srmtasaskatoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srmtasaskatoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srmtasaskatoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srmtasaskatoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srmtasaskatoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/srmtasaskatoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/srmtasaskatoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srmtasaskatoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srmtasaskatoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srmtasaskatoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}