{"id":128,"date":"2008-11-05T08:38:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T08:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=128"},"modified":"2008-11-05T08:38:05","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T08:38:05","slug":"philharmonic_phanatics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2008\/11\/philharmonic_phanatics\/","title":{"rendered":"Philharmonic Phanatics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to post this yesterday, but in a moment of total paranoia decided not to put forth any semblance of a gesture of support for McCain\/Palin. But now that it&#8217;s safe, an advertising suggestion for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philorch.org\/\">Philadelphia Orchestra<\/a>, from <i><a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/404105\/vote-mccainpalin-win-baseball-championships-all-over-again\">Wonkette<\/a><\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Phillies-ad.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/Phillies-ad.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"297\" width=\"450\" \/><\/span>As <i>Wonkette <\/i>writes re: McCain\/Palin, &#8220;&#8216;Oh, that&#8217;s right, my favorite baseball team won<br \/>\nthe big game, and this gave me pleasure,&#8217; the average voter will say<br \/>\nupon encountering this placard. &#8216;I will now vote for these two nuts<br \/>\nwhose names are on the sign next to that of my favorite baseball team.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think, however, it would have been a mistake for the Philadelphia Orchestra (Opera Company of Philadelphia, et al) to ride the Phillies&#8217; coattails a bit. Run a &#8220;The Philadelphia Orchestra congratulates the 2008 World Champion Phillies&#8221; ad campaign, and come up with a funny discount ticket offer (bring your Phillies ticket stubs to the box office?).&nbsp; Maybe put together a special concert to celebrate. COLLECT THE E MAIL ADDRESSES of the folks that come. And if you can&#8217;t pull together a congratulations concert (understandable), videotape the Philadelphia Orchestra playing &#8220;Take Me Out to the Ballgame&#8221; and post it on YouTube, tagged with &#8220;Phillies, World Series, 2008, Orchestra, Philadelphia, Ballgame, Song&#8221; etc.. <\/p>\n<p>Phillies fans are energized and filled with home-city pride; why don&#8217;t the local arts organizations figure out a way to tap into that? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to post this yesterday, but in a moment of total paranoia decided not to put forth any semblance of a gesture of support for McCain\/Palin. But now that it&#8217;s safe, an advertising suggestion for the Philadelphia Orchestra, from Wonkette: As Wonkette writes re: McCain\/Palin, &#8220;&#8216;Oh, that&#8217;s right, my favorite baseball team won [&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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}