{"id":1230,"date":"2008-03-14T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T06:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/03\/14\/food-court-the-musical\/"},"modified":"2008-03-14T23:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T06:18:00","slug":"food-court-the-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/03\/14\/food-court-the-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Court: The Musical!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest prank from the folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/improveverywhere.com\/faq\/\">Improv Everywhere<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dkYZ6rbPU2M&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dkYZ6rbPU2M&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Read more about it on <a href=\"http:\/\/improveverywhere.com\/2008\/03\/09\/food-court-musical\/\">their blog<\/a>.  My favorite part is the security guard, but honestly, I wish the music was a little better and the satire a little sharper.<\/p>\n<p>I know the whole breaking-out-in-song thing might seem frivolous to many people, but in a well-written musical show, there are clear and compelling reasons for characters to sing instead of speak about very specific things.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westsidestory.com\/site\/level2\/lyrics\/maria.html\">Meeting the girl of your dreams<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VpdB6CN7jww\">?<\/a>  Yes.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyworld.com\/buffy\/transcripts\/107_lyrics.html#song5\">Dry cleaning<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d_fcXR6t14k\">?<\/a>  Not so much.  You don&#8217;t just add another song because it&#8217;s been ten minutes since the last one.  Well, maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmusicals.com\/lyrics\/guysanddolls\/sitdownyourerockintheboat.htm\">sometimes that&#8217;s okay<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o7kzsZreG0o\">.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest prank from the folks at Improv Everywhere: Read more about it on their blog. My favorite part is the security guard, but honestly, I wish the music was a little better and the satire a little sharper. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[43,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}