{"id":12498,"date":"2009-11-01T13:44:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T18:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2009\/11\/01\/12498.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:52:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:52:50","slug":"book-report-after-the-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2009\/11\/01\/book-report-after-the-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: After the Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You might think, on first glance, that a Noel Coward musical based on Oscar Wilde&#8217;s <i>Lady Windermere&#8217;s Fan<\/i>, would be a good idea. Further thought, however, would probably lead to the realization that what Oscar Wilde does not need is to be a bit more Noel Coward, and vice versa. Or would lead you to invest a bunch of money into a production starring a woman with a singing voice that Mr. Coward described as sounding like someone fucking a cat.\n<p>Ah, well. I haven't heard it, but I have read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samuelfrench.com\/store\/product_info.php\/cPath\/30\/products_id\/2660\">After the Ball (a Concert Version)<\/a>, adapted, edited and rewritten by Barry Day, and frankly, unless the music is utterly utt, I don't see any reason for it at all. I mean.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger is all, like, &#8216;it must be mine!&#8217;, and then, not so much, later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-theeyater"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18910,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12498\/revisions\/18910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}