{"id":1933,"date":"2012-06-11T04:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T09:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rockwellblake.com\/blog\/?page_id=1933"},"modified":"2014-11-28T08:35:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T12:35:13","slug":"the-glottis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/what-is-it-about\/glossary\/the-glottis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Glottis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What we are talking about is like a Doughnut Hole, and not the ones you can purchase at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dunkindonuts.com\/content\/dunkindonuts\/en\/menu\/donuts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dunkin Donuts<\/a>. Those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dunkindonuts.com\/content\/dunkindonuts\/en\/menu\/munchkins.html\" target=\"_blank\">Donut Holes<\/a> you can purchase<em> (I know they came up with a better name but you know where they come from.) <\/em>are formed as a result of an action that creates the actual Hole in the Doughnut.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Like the Glottis, the holes in the doughnuts are free. They ought to be free. There is nothing there, but surrounded space. What a mess of words we use to make the glottis seem like an active little munchkin, when in fact it is no more substantial than the hole in a doughnut.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This space is important, however, because it is the location at which the fundamental energetic force, air pressure, is converted into the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pressure_wave\" target=\"_blank\">pressure waves<\/a> that eventually pass into the air, free of the body. When this <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sound\" target=\"_blank\">noise<\/a> hits our ears we recognize it as voice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What we are talking about is like a Doughnut Hole, and not the ones you can purchase at Dunkin Donuts. Those Donut Holes you can purchase (I know they came up with a better name but you know where they come from.) are formed as a result of an action that creates the actual Hole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1928,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-gallery.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1933","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2kj1l-vb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1933"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3611,"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1933\/revisions\/3611"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}