{"id":281,"date":"2009-06-15T10:14:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T10:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=281"},"modified":"2009-06-15T10:14:51","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T10:14:51","slug":"metropolitan_diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2009\/06\/metropolitan_diary\/","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was waiting on line to have my bag inspected at Hilary&#8217;s <i>Free for All <\/i>concert at Town Hall yesterday, and an older gentleman in a suit walked up to me. <\/p>\n<p><b>Him: <\/b>Excuse me, is this your first <i>Free for All <\/i>concert?<\/p>\n<p><b>Me: <\/b>Yes it is.<\/p>\n<p><b>Him: <\/b>Can I ask how you heard about it?<\/p>\n<p><b>Me:<\/b> Erm&#8230;I&#8217;m Hilary&#8217;s publicist.<\/p>\n<p><b>Him:<\/b> Oh [laughing and looking away]. See, I&#8217;m the Chairman of <i>Free for All, <\/i>and we&#8217;ve been trying to get more young people out to our concerts. So I thought, well there&#8217;s an elegant, nicely-dressed young lady; that&#8217;s exactly the kind of concert-goer we want. I&#8217;ll ask her. <\/p>\n<p>I figure he approached either the exact wrong or the exact right person. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was waiting on line to have my bag inspected at Hilary&#8217;s Free for All concert at Town Hall yesterday, and an older gentleman in a suit walked up to me. Him: Excuse me, is this your first Free for All concert? Me: Yes it is. Him: Can I ask how you heard about it? [&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-281","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\/281","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=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}