{"id":3385,"date":"2026-05-12T11:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blindskeleton.one\/?p=3385"},"modified":"2026-05-12T11:00:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:00:49","slug":"preventative-health-the-purge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blindskeleton.one\/?p=3385","title":{"rendered":"Preventative Health (The Purge)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 112px; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/castopod.blindskeleton.one\/@threetunetuesday\/episodes\/preventative-health-the-purge\/embed\/dark\" width=\"100%\" height=\"112\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This week on Three Tune Tuesday, we&#8217;re thinking about health \u2014 specifically, the kind of health check that requires preparation, a gown, and a level of personal exposure that no one particularly looks forward to. We open with a piece of good timing: &#8220;By the Saskatchewan,&#8221; recorded on this very date in 1911 by baritone Andrea Sarto, taken from the hit Broadway musical comedy <em>The Pink Lady<\/em>, with music by Ivan Caryll \u2014 who, as it happens, was also born on May 12, making this a double centenary of sorts. From there we move to Rosa Henderson&#8217;s 1923 Victor recording of &#8220;Good Woman&#8217;s Blues,&#8221; a spare and dignified classic blues performance written by George Butts and Hulbert Esmere, in which a woman of considerable self-possession states her case plainly, accompanied by nothing more than Wendell Talbert&#8217;s piano. We close with Dame Clara Butt, whose vast contralto fills Samuel Liddle&#8217;s setting of Henry Francis Lyte&#8217;s immortal hymn &#8220;Abide with Me&#8221; \u2014 written by Lyte on his deathbed in 1847 and first sung at his funeral. It is, in short, a playlist assembled in the spirit of a colonoscopy: you go in hoping for reassurance, you endure what must be endured, and you emerge, if all goes well, with a clean bill of health and a renewed appreciation for being upright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on Three Tune Tuesday, we&#8217;re thinking about health \u2014 specifically, the kind of health check that requires preparation, a gown, and a level of personal exposure that no one particularly looks forward to. We open with a piece of good timing: &#8220;By the Saskatchewan,&#8221; recorded on this very date in 1911 by baritone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-three-tune-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blindskeleton.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blindskeleton.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blindskeleton.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blindskeleton.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blindskeleton.one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blindskeleton.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blindskeleton.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blindskeleton.one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blindskeleton.one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blindskeleton.one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}