{"id":7342,"date":"2020-07-17T08:01:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T12:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=7342"},"modified":"2020-07-16T21:36:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T01:36:19","slug":"getting-some-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/getting-some-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Some Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-41\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/r-avatar-e1443983880436.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>A few days ago we gave ourselves the night off from the Writing Cave and decamped to the Auxilliary Cavern to watch <em>Hamilton<\/em>. Yes, it&#8217;s as good as everyone says. You should watch it.<\/p>\n<p>You might want to watch it twice, to catch all the fantastic wordplay. There are a lot of words, and it&#8217;s all sung through. It&#8217;s an impressive feat to have so many great lines, and to sustain it throughout the show.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s also very impressive is its macro-level storytelling. Alexander Hamilton covered a lot of ground, and he did it at a very lively point in history. That such an epic plot is constructed entirely in song &#8212; there is no spoken dialog to cheat the plot forward &#8212; is a little mind-blowing.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, what we geek out about is the writing. But we wouldn&#8217;t want to give the impression that it was &#8220;like watching a good book.&#8221; Yes, the wordsmithing is stellar, but so was everything else.\u00a0The costumes, the choreography, the music, the singing, the acting, the entire show is marvelous. You should watch it.<\/p>\n<p>A writing partner is someone you can enjoy a great show with on your night off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago we gave ourselves the night off from the Writing Cave and decamped to the Auxilliary Cavern to watch Hamilton. Yes, it&#8217;s as good as everyone says. You should watch it. You might want to watch it twice, to catch all the fantastic wordplay. There are a lot of words, and it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brainstorming-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7343,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342\/revisions\/7343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}