{"id":527313,"date":"2023-01-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=527313"},"modified":"2023-01-27T10:54:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T10:54:16","slug":"no-really-beethoven-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/no-really-beethoven-and","title":{"rendered":"No, Really. Beethoven And&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently classical music can count Lebron among its fans.On the online series The Shop, NBA player Lebron James recently gave a picture of his typical game day &#8211; how he arrives hours before the start time, visits the weight room, and listens to music. He has been on a DMX kick, but that&#8217;s not all that&#8217;s on his playlist.The basketball star&#8217;s claim that he includes &#8220;Beethoven and [stuff]&#8221; in his pregame ritual (his language was more colorful) was met with a fairly large degree of skepticism on social media. But the fact is that it&#8217;s not unusual at all for elite athletes to make special playlists or rely on music as part of their rituals. And, there&#8217;s nothing unbelievable about someone looking to find a moment of centering and focus turning on a little &#8220;Beethoven and stuff.&#8221;Anecdotally, I personally switched my running playlist to all Haydn symphonies in an experiment last summer, with spectacular results. Just from naturally timing my<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lebron James has Beethoven on his pregame playlist, and so can you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}