{"id":318,"date":"2010-07-21T18:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T18:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=318"},"modified":"2010-07-21T18:00:59","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T18:00:59","slug":"guess_whos_performing_at_the_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2010\/07\/guess_whos_performing_at_the_w\/","title":{"rendered":"Guess Who&#8217;s Performing At the White House?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/07\/20\/AR2010072005793.html\"><b>To showcase nation&#8217;s arts, first lady isn&#8217;t afraid to spotlight the unexpected<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Besides the warm and fuzzy feeling it might give us (hey, who doesn&#8217;t like to read that famous people agree with them?), what kind of public relations and\/or political influence does this kind of activity and attendant media coverage accomplish for the cause of the performing arts in America? Several of the folks chatting over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artists\/\">this week&#8217;s special AJ Creative Rights and Artists blog<\/a> have mentioned that we may not be the best people to work on public policy\/legislative changes and perhaps our quite limited resources would be better placed elsewhere. But it makes me wonder: Do Michele Obama&#8217;s actions carry any real impact, or are they just a nice story for the Arts &amp; Living section?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To showcase nation&#8217;s arts, first lady isn&#8217;t afraid to spotlight the unexpected Besides the warm and fuzzy feeling it might give us (hey, who doesn&#8217;t like to read that famous people agree with them?), what kind of public relations and\/or political influence does this kind of activity and attendant media coverage accomplish for the cause [&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-318","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\/318","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=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}