{"id":291,"date":"2009-07-08T16:07:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T16:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=291"},"modified":"2009-07-08T16:07:54","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T16:07:54","slug":"best_shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2009\/07\/best_shots\/","title":{"rendered":"Best shots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was out and about on the Lower East Side on Monday night and at one bar, my friends and I were greeted with promotional <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonypictures.com\/movies\/theuglytruth\/\">The Ugly Truth<\/a><\/i> shot glasses and napkins. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ugly-Truth.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/Ugly-Truth.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" \/><\/span>[Yes, I was the girl taking pictures of shot glasses for her classical music PR blog at the bar. That is, in fact, how I get all the boys.]<\/p>\n<p>Every time I see an expensive mainstream promotion like this I crack myself up thinking about how the same promotion would be applied to classical music (also how I get all the boys). For example, will Deutsche Grammophon be creating promotional Hilary Hahn Bach Arias shot glasses in January? One of my summer interns suggested King&#8217;s Singers collectible shot glasses, each with a different guy&#8217;s head on it (collect all six!). I told her that that was remarkably similar to my King&#8217;s Singers bobblehead idea, which I&#8217;m still trying to sell to the team. <\/p>\n<p>Shot glasses are so amazingly trashy, though, that coming across an <i>A Flowering Tree<\/i> at Mostly Mozart August 2009 one at some Lower East Side dive bar would just make my summer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was out and about on the Lower East Side on Monday night and at one bar, my friends and I were greeted with promotional The Ugly Truth shot glasses and napkins. [Yes, I was the girl taking pictures of shot glasses for her classical music PR blog at the bar. That is, in fact, [&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-291","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\/291","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=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}