{"id":3417,"date":"2017-01-09T09:16:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T17:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=3417"},"modified":"2017-01-10T17:38:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T01:38:30","slug":"jazz-and-la-la-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2017\/01\/jazz-and-la-la-land.html","title":{"rendered":"Jazz and &#8220;La La Land&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar]<\/p>\n<p>FOR weeks now I&#8217;ve been meaning to write about the poorly named film La La Land, which has drawn acclaim but also divided audiences, and produced\u00a0a decidedly split response within the jazz world.<\/p>\n<p>Hoping to get to that today. I really loved the movie, for what it&#8217;s worth.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people I trust disliked or hated it.<\/p>\n<p>But starting today it becomes very cool\/ intellectual\/ contrarian to say, &#8220;I always hated La La Land.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/lalaland2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3418\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/lalaland2-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/lalaland2-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/lalaland2-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/lalaland2-1024x646.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/lalaland2.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A belated happy new year to readers of CultureCrash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar] FOR weeks now I&#8217;ve been meaning to write about the poorly named film La La Land, which has drawn acclaim but also divided audiences, and produced\u00a0a decidedly split response within the jazz world. Hoping to get to that today. I really loved the movie, for what it&#8217;s worth. A lot of people I trust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[30],"tags":[757,718,756],"class_list":{"0":"post-3417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-los-angeles","7":"tag-film","8":"tag-jazz","9":"tag-la-la-land","10":"entry","11":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3417"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3422,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions\/3422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}