{"id":282,"date":"2007-01-13T14:49:19","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T14:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=282"},"modified":"2007-01-13T14:49:19","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T14:49:19","slug":"theater_pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/01\/theater_pirates.html","title":{"rendered":"Theater: Pirates of Penzance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Chris Monks production.  The pirates were dressed as &#8217;50s mobsters.  The Major General&#8217;s daughters looked ready for yoga (except for Mabel, of course).  Performed at a very small theater in the round (the Orange Tree in Richmond [outside London]), but masterfully filling the space with movement and sound.<br \/>\nReally well done:  well acted \/ well sung.  Well updated:  the present day politics inserted into &#8220;For I Am a Major General&#8221; were hilarious and the ending (&#8220;For We Love the Bard&#8221;) was just perfect.<br \/>\nLoved it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chris Monks production. The pirates were dressed as &#8217;50s mobsters. The Major General&#8217;s daughters looked ready for yoga (except for Mabel, of course). Performed at a very small theater in the round (the Orange Tree in Richmond [outside London]), &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/01\/theater_pirates.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,29,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live","category-recommending","category-theater","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}