{"id":130,"date":"2009-04-22T08:53:34","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T08:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=130"},"modified":"2009-04-22T08:53:34","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T08:53:34","slug":"see_you_at_the_symphony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2009\/04\/see_you_at_the_symphony\/","title":{"rendered":"See You At the Symphony!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tafto.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/tafto.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px; float: right;\" height=\"387\" width=\"300\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned <a href=\"urnal.com\/gap\/2008\/08\/personal-cultural-quandary.html\">once before<\/a>, somehow watching <i>M*A*S*H<\/i> as a child defined my sense of humor in a rather serious way. As an adult, mass media has continued to shape my cultural perspective&#8211;particularly fueled by late nights reading Gawker and watching loads of trash TV.  I confess all this to help explain how it is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adaptistration.com\/?p=4492\">my contribution<\/A> to Adaptistration&#8217;s <i>Take a Friend To the Orchestra<\/i> project ended up sounding like I was coming off a <i>Gossip Girl<\/i> bender. (Ahem.) I&#8217;m no Corey Dargel when it comes to the audio engineering, but in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2009\/03\/blogger-book-club-we-love-amat.html\">the spirit of the amateur<\/a>, I tried. If you have a few minutes and have ever considered going to a symphony concert, I hope this audio handbook of etiquette for elite occasions helps you navigate the experience with confidence. (If you&#8217;re already a regular, I hope it makes you smile.)<\/p>\n<p>If I have failed, your visit is not wasted because Matt got the party started with one of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adaptistration.com\/?p=4457\">kick-ass comic strips<\/a>. Now go laugh! It&#8217;s Wednesday.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Listen to <i>Mind the Gap<\/i>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adaptistration.com\/?p=4492\">2009 Take a Friend to the Orchestra Contribution<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And stay tuned for our next installment: Take an Enemy to the Opera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned once before, somehow watching M*A*S*H as a child defined my sense of humor in a rather serious way. As an adult, mass media has continued to shape my cultural perspective&#8211;particularly fueled by late nights reading Gawker and watching loads of trash TV. I confess all this to help explain how it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}