{"id":667,"date":"2008-09-24T12:54:25","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T17:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=667"},"modified":"2008-09-24T12:54:28","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T17:54:28","slug":"could-someone-please-do-a-production-of-iolanthe-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2008\/09\/could-someone-please-do-a-production-of-iolanthe-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Could someone please do a production of Iolanthe in Washington?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll buy tickets for all the members of Congress.  They don&#8217;t have to be there for the whole show; they could skip the entire first act, if need be (though they&#8217;d miss the great Act I finale).  As long as they are there to hear the last verse of Lord Mountararat&#8217;s  song &#8220;When Britain Really Ruled the Waves&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And while the House of Peers withholds<br \/>\nIts legislative hand,<br \/>\nAnd noble statesmen do not itch<br \/>\nTo interfere with matters which<br \/>\nThey do not understand,<br \/>\nAs bright will shine Great Britain\u2019s rays<br \/>\nAs in King George\u2019s glorious days!<br \/>\nAs bright will shine Great Britain\u2019s rays<br \/>\nAs in King George\u2019s glorious days!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll buy tickets for all the members of Congress. They don&#8217;t have to be there for the whole show; they could skip the entire first<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-aL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}