{"id":242,"date":"2009-04-20T09:59:19","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T09:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=242"},"modified":"2009-04-20T09:59:19","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T09:59:19","slug":"for_the_trees_have_no_tongues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2009\/04\/for_the_trees_have_no_tongues\/","title":{"rendered":"For the trees have no tongues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read Molly Sheridan&#8217;s coverage of The Metropolitan Opera&#8217;s season brochure and&#8230;.eeeeeekkk&#8230;order forms (!) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2009\/04\/not-waiting-for-an-engraved-in.html\">here<\/a>. She writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, I bet opera fans were drooling all over this same package, so I<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t mean to knock the concept. And it must have cost a small fortune<br \/>\nto produce and mail, so I hope they all immediately put in extensive<br \/>\nseason orders. But it was way more than I, a one-time single ticket<br \/>\nbuyer, knew what to do with. I&#8217;m more a teaser video and &#8220;Buy nosebleed<br \/>\nseats for this Friday&#8217;s show NOW for only $25!&#8221; kind of girl, myself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;This package was a great sales piece, I just wasn&#8217;t the right customer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny that Molly&#8217;s post is called &#8220;Not Waiting for an Engraved Invitation&#8221;; two of my friends have gotten married in the past year, and I received e mail invitations to both weddings.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of season brochures, why aren&#8217;t New York City Opera 09-10 tickets <a href=\"http:\/\/nycopera.com\/season\/season_announce.aspx\">on sale yet<\/a>? <\/p>\n<p>And speaking of City Opera, why does their new logo look exactly like New York City Ballet&#8217;s?? <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NYC-Ballet.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/NYC-Ballet.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"49\" width=\"400\" \/><\/span><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NY-City-opera.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/NY-City-opera.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"132\" width=\"400\" \/><\/span><br \/>I mean, I love New York City Ballet&#8217;s logo but&#8230;folks are going to notice the similarities! Copy it if you&#8217;re in Kansas, not if you share a performance space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read Molly Sheridan&#8217;s coverage of The Metropolitan Opera&#8217;s season brochure and&#8230;.eeeeeekkk&#8230;order forms (!) here. She writes: Now, I bet opera fans were drooling all over this same package, so I don&#8217;t mean to knock the concept. And it must have cost a small fortune to produce and mail, so I hope they all immediately put [&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-242","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\/242","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=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}