{"id":11957,"date":"2014-06-18T07:09:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T12:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=11957"},"modified":"2014-06-18T07:09:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T12:09:43","slug":"feeling-a-little-puckish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/feeling-a-little-puckish\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling a little Puckish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Q3zzdCjVaZM?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I found a complete performance of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Balanchine\" target=\"_blank\">Balanchine<\/a>&#8216;s <i><b>A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream<\/b><\/i>. If you remember the play, you can follow the story pretty well, though Balanchine made many changes in adapting it. Even if you haven&#8217;t read Shakespeare, you can enjoy the spectacle, and there&#8217;s always the music.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frederick_Ashton\" target=\"_blank\">Frederick Ashton<\/a> also choreographed the play in <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ja_PCSSoD0E&#038;list=PL79A8606AD28DCFFD\" target=\"_blank\">The Dream<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. In his version, the transformed Bottom dances on pointe for added grotesquerie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a complete performance of Balanchine&#8216;s A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream. If you remember the play, you can follow the story pretty well, though Balanchine made many changes in adapting it. Even if you haven&#8217;t read Shakespeare, you can enjoy the spectacle, and there&#8217;s always the music. Frederick Ashton also choreographed the play in The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/feeling-a-little-puckish\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Feeling a little Puckish&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-11957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-music","tag-ballet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-36R","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11957"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11960,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11957\/revisions\/11960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}