{"id":21435,"date":"2014-04-07T16:53:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T20:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=21435"},"modified":"2014-04-07T16:53:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T20:53:30","slug":"lets-put-on-a-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/lets-put-on-a-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Put on a Show!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since <strong>Jesse Winchester<\/strong> is <em>not<\/em>, as of this writing\u2014contrary to reports earlier today\u2014<em>yet dead<\/em>; since I cannot muster even the mildest false devastation over the sudden and unexpected death of &#8220;media personality&#8221; <strong>Peaches Geldof<\/strong>, the daughter of Bob Geldof and the late Paula Yates, whose presence I never knew existed until this unfortunate turn of events&#8230;let&#8217;s celebrate the life\u2014and mourn the confirmed death\u2014of a <em>great<\/em>&#8230;song and dance man, <strong>Mickey Rooney<\/strong>. <em>Let&#8217;s put on a show!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SRZ5400UKSc\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever mustered the enthusiasm, idealism, drive, and insanity to put on a show? I have. Even when the show itself is a complete flop by objective standards, it&#8217;s almost always a blast. Hell, I can&#8217;t think of a time when it hasn&#8217;t been a blast, so I&#8217;ll drop the &#8220;almost&#8221; from that statement. Mickey&#8217;s <strong>Andy Hardy<\/strong> character had it right. When the chips are down, when no one believes in you and your artistic compatriots, when your community needs you, put on a show!<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hear your stories of organizing shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Jesse Winchester is not, as of this writing\u2014contrary to reports earlier today\u2014yet dead; since I cannot muster even the mildest false devastation over the sudden and unexpected death of &#8220;media personality&#8221; Peaches Geldof, the daughter of Bob Geldof and the late Paula Yates, whose presence I never knew existed until this unfortunate turn of <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/lets-put-on-a-show\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}