{"id":927,"date":"2006-08-07T08:42:49","date_gmt":"2006-08-07T15:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2006\/08\/but_how_do_you_really_feel_abo\/"},"modified":"2006-08-07T08:42:49","modified_gmt":"2006-08-07T15:42:49","slug":"but_how_do_you_really_feel_abo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/but_how_do_you_really_feel_abo.php","title":{"rendered":"But how do you REALLY feel about ballet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Segal at the <i>LA Times<\/i> is fed up with ballet, and isn&#8217;t afraid to say why in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calendarlive.com\/stage\/cl-ca-primer6aug06,0,7058108.story?coll=cl-lat-homepage\">his recent opinion column<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nMost ballet is every bit as bad as audiences secretly suspect &#8212; and it&#8217;s not going to improve until companies stop conning or shaming us into accepting damaged goods. In the meantime, guilt-free hatred of ballet is reasonable, maybe even necessary.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ouch. Let the letters to the editor begin.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Trevor and ArtsJournal for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Segal at the LA Times is fed up with ballet, and isn&#8217;t afraid to say why in his recent opinion column. Most ballet is every bit as bad as audiences secretly suspect &#8212; and it&#8217;s not going to improve until companies stop conning or shaming us into accepting damaged goods. In the meantime, guilt-free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-927","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\/927","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=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}