{"id":6072,"date":"2014-09-15T13:23:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T12:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/?p=6072"},"modified":"2014-09-14T19:28:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T18:28:31","slug":"things-overheard-in-the-audience-at-the-arditti-quartet-concert-back-in-april-which-i-wrote-down-and-forgot-about-until-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2014\/09\/things-overheard-in-the-audience-at-the-arditti-quartet-concert-back-in-april-which-i-wrote-down-and-forgot-about-until-now.html","title":{"rendered":"Things overheard in the audience at the Arditti Quartet concert back in April which I wrote down and forgot about until now."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re playing the Lachenmann last. I didn&#8217;t want to hear the Carter; I need a life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>[BBC announcer walks on-stage.]<\/em> &#8220;We&#8217;re in for some torture first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So apparently she&#8217;s this hugely important and revered cultural figure in Lebanon, but when you present her in the opera she just comes across as Widow Twankey. He doesn&#8217;t get it. I tried explaining Widow Twankey to him and he thinks she&#8217;s a real person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Grisey, darling.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re playing the Lachenmann last. I didn&#8217;t want to hear the Carter; I need a life.&#8221; [BBC announcer walks on-stage.] &#8220;We&#8217;re in for some torture first.&#8221; &#8220;So apparently she&#8217;s this hugely important and revered cultural figure in Lebanon, but when you present her in the opera she just comes across as Widow Twankey. He doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072"}],"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=6072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6074,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072\/revisions\/6074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}