{"id":235,"date":"2012-03-21T04:05:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T04:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/env\/?p=235"},"modified":"2014-02-25T01:14:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T01:14:49","slug":"silence-is-golden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/env\/silence-is-golden\/","title":{"rendered":"Silence is Golden \u00a9 Copyright David Dilworth 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><div style=\"width: 269px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Silence\" src=\"http:\/\/t2.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQFY2CTB5KeZldAXUQKFPpj__UZ3cF0d_mSJSFNnCAppPHvoEZx\" title=\"Silence\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silence<\/p><\/div>Silence is a subject very different from noise.<\/p>\n<p>Noise is unwanted sound, while Silence is a valuable positive phenomena (not a resource) which can and should be protected. <\/p>\n<p>Silence can be mapped as areas enjoying continuous periods where no man-made sounds are apparent (none exceed 35 dBA). <\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Cicadas and frogs can often be heard for as much as a half mile, but they are not human caused noise. <\/p>\n<p>Silence is extremely rare on the Monterey Peninsula. I have measured the ambient sound level in Jeffers Forest at 14 dbA during fresh fog (before fog dripping starts) at about 4:30 am. I can personally testify that it is quieter than the softest audible whisper. The minimum continuous sound in Jeffers Forest in Pebble Beach is below 30 decibels on the &#8220;A&#8221; scale. <\/p>\n<p>To me, the natural undamaged-by-human silent serenity inside our natural Monterey Pine Forest in Pebble Beach is an astoundingly wonderful unforgettable experience.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silence is a subject very different from noise. Noise is unwanted sound, while Silence is a valuable positive phenomena (not a resource) which can and should be protected. Silence can be mapped as areas enjoying continuous periods where no man-made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/env\/silence-is-golden\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[24,54,62,59,60,61,55,63,57,56,58,53],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-science","category-human-health","tag-environment","tag-geography-of-california","tag-jeffers-forest","tag-monterey-california","tag-monterey-peninsula","tag-monterey-pine-forest","tag-noise","tag-pebble-beach","tag-pebble-beach-california","tag-silence","tag-sound-pressure","tag-waves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/env\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/env\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/env\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/env\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/env\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/env\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/env\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/env\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/env\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/env\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}