{"id":708,"date":"2006-12-03T22:39:46","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T03:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=708"},"modified":"2007-03-02T15:22:25","modified_gmt":"2007-03-02T20:22:25","slug":"things-they-never-tell-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=708","title":{"rendered":"Things they never tell you"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had the privilege of preaching up at the Medford Unitarian Universalist church this morning, while Hank Peirce, the minister in Medford, preached down here in New Bedford. The Unitarian Universalist Church of Medford<\/a> is a great church, and it was fun to preach there. But I got thrown off my regular Sunday morning routine, and I didn’t drink as much water as I usually do. By the time I got back home, I was parched and I drank about quart and a half of tea.<\/p>\n

One of the things they never told me in preaching class was that preaching (or any public speaking for that matter) dries you out. Which, if you think about it, makes sense:– when you speak you have to push lots of hot, moist air out of your body, and that inevitably will dry you out. Fortunately I took voice lessons at the Old Town School of Folk Music, back when we lived near Chicago, and my voice teacher told us that singing dries you out. If you get dried out out, your vocal chords don’t function well, so you can wind up straining them. She taught us to drink lots of water while we were singing. Though she told us that we should drink luke warm water, because cold water can chill your throat, which causes your muscles to tighten up, which means (once again) that you can wind up straining your voice.<\/p>\n

To you this probably seems like such a minor point, but it really does make all the difference to me in my line of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had the privilege of preaching up at the Medford Unitarian Universalist church this morning, while Hank Peirce, the minister in Medford, preached down here in New Bedford. The Unitarian Universalist Church of Medford is a great church, and it was fun to preach there. But I got thrown off my regular Sunday morning routine, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}