{"id":1171,"date":"2016-06-01T00:33:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T00:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2016-06-06T21:05:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T21:05:12","slug":"1171","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1171","title":{"rendered":"Music aids recovery of stroke survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/102.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1174\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/102-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"102\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/102-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/102-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/102-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/102-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After Ron Sipes had a pair of strokes in October 2012, doctors predicted he would never walk or talk again.<\/p>\n<p>But Sipes has defied the odds. On May 18, in a voice clear and strong, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/for-stroke-survivors-in-loudoun-hospitals-choir-music-is-the-best-medicine\/2016\/05\/27\/f21ad9c0-1e98-11e6-8c7b-6931e66333e7_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">he sang out the opening lines of a song<\/a> made popular by Louis Armstrong&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/for-stroke-survivors-in-loudoun-hospitals-choir-music-is-the-best-medicine\/2016\/05\/27\/f21ad9c0-1e98-11e6-8c7b-6931e66333e7_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Washington Post<\/em>, May 29, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Ron Sipes had a pair of strokes in October 2012, doctors predicted he would never walk or talk again. But Sipes has defied the odds. On May 18, in a voice clear and strong, he sang out the opening lines of a song made popular by Louis Armstrong&#8230; Read more&#8230; The Washington Post, May &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1171\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Music aids recovery of stroke survivors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,14,3,92,2,68,88],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-hospital","tag-leesburg","tag-loudoun-county","tag-manassas","tag-music","tag-nonprofit","tag-woodbridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}