{"id":258,"date":"2006-01-04T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=258"},"modified":"2010-01-11T00:02:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T00:02:20","slug":"be-careful-what-you-wish-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/01\/be-careful-what-you-wish-for.html","title":{"rendered":"Be careful what you wish for"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/arts\/features\/story\/0,11710,1677553,00.html\">After 37 years of joyous mayhem,<\/a> Welfare State International, the company I co-founded and of which I am artistic director, is creating its last gig&#8230;. <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">All our intentions of 1968 &#8211; access, disability awareness, multigenerational and multicultural participation &#8211; are established; now, though, they come before the art&#8230;. Overintensive risk management, child protection, alarm systems, licensing, family-friendly badges and employment laws invade with a suffocating culture of smug inertia. <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Of course, he&#8217;s a theatre person so we shouldn&#8217;t expect too much self-awareness, but can he really not see the resemblance of the utopian world he worked toward, to the stifling world he inhabits now?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 37 years of joyous mayhem, Welfare State International, the company I co-founded and of which I am artistic director, is creating its last gig&#8230;. All our intentions of 1968 &#8211; access, disability awareness, multigenerational and multicultural participation &#8211; are established; now, though, they come before the art&#8230;. Overintensive risk management, child protection, alarm systems, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3723,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/3723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}