{"id":350,"date":"2003-08-06T12:16:31","date_gmt":"2003-08-06T19:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2003\/08\/gone_fishing\/"},"modified":"2003-08-06T12:16:31","modified_gmt":"2003-08-06T19:16:31","slug":"gone_fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/gone_fishing.php","title":{"rendered":"Gone fishing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m off-line most of today (and possibly tomorrow), so I&#8217;ll point you instead to a great interchange that&#8217;s happening among two other blogs in my neighborhood. Both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/sandow\/\">Greg Sandow<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/aboutlastnight\/\">Terry Teachout<\/a> reference <a href=\"http:\/\/www.operanews.com\/archives\/203\/Blackout.203.html\">an Opera News piece<\/a> about the bleak future of opera on PBS, and both have a different take. Here&#8217;s Sandow&#8217;s perspective:<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"blogquote\">\nWhat registers for [Terry Teachout] is PBS rejecting art, refusing to show challenging operas because they won&#8217;t attract a massive audience. For me what might be going on is different. I wonder if the problem isn&#8217;t that PBS demands a massive audience (though perhaps it might), but that opera draws a very tiny one\u2039so tiny, for works that aren&#8217;t widely known, that no responsible large-scale broadcaster could afford to show them.<\/div>\n<p>Here are <a href=\"http:\/\/artsjournal.com\/aboutlastnight\/archives20030803.shtml#47557\">Terry&#8217;s comments<\/a>, and here are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/sandow\/archives20030803.shtml#47913\">Greg&#8217;s responses<\/a>. What a great way to carry on a public conversation with depth and substance. Blog on, brave friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m off-line most of today (and possibly tomorrow), so I&#8217;ll point you instead to a great interchange that&#8217;s happening among two other blogs in my neighborhood. Both Greg Sandow and Terry Teachout reference an Opera News piece about the bleak future of opera on PBS, and both have a different take. Here&#8217;s Sandow&#8217;s perspective: What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}