{"id":15063,"date":"2015-05-11T10:12:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T17:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2015\/05\/11\/15063.html"},"modified":"2015-05-11T10:12:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T17:12:30","slug":"hamilton-rap-becomes-a-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2015\/05\/11\/hamilton-rap-becomes-a-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton rap becomes a musical"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2009, composer\/lyricist\/performer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lin-Manuel_Miranda\">Lin-Manuel Miranda<\/a> performed an amazing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WNFf7nMIGnE\">hip-hop piece about Alexander Hamilton<\/a> (5-min video, with mostly-accurate captions) at the White House. He said at the time that he was working on a concept album about Hamilton; since then, it's turned into a musical, <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hamilton_(musical)\">Hamilton<\/a><\/cite>, which will apparently be moving to Broadway in July.<\/p>\n<p>There's a long <cite>New Yorker<\/cite> article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/02\/09\/hamiltons\">Miranda and <cite>Hamilton<\/cite><\/a>; I've only skimmed it, but he sounds like an interesting guy and the show sounds great. Hope I get to see it at some point.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, to further whet appetites, here's a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oUI8b17YGx8\">John Adams rap<\/a> that was apparently cut from the show. (1-min video)<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to Susan and Marguerite for introducing me to this.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009, composer\/lyricist\/performer Lin-Manuel Miranda performed an amazing hip-hop piece about Alexander Hamilton (5-min video, with mostly-accurate captions) at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,45,95,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-politics","category-race-ethnicity","category-theatre"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}