{"id":360,"date":"2009-10-27T21:44:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T21:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=360"},"modified":"2009-10-27T21:44:18","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T21:44:18","slug":"fun_with_castration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2009\/10\/fun_with_castration\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with Castration!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1Bartoli-cover-with-text.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/1Bartoli-cover-with-text.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;\" height=\"259\" width=\"300\" \/>I&#8217;m working on the US press for the new Cecilia Bartoli album, <i>Sacrificium, <\/i>which <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/culturemonster\/2009\/10\/cecilia-bartoli-on-castrati-and-michael-jackson.html\">not unlike Michael Jackson&#8217;s new album<\/a>, came out this week. Buy it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cecilia-Bartoli-Sacrificium\/dp\/B002GYGSXG\">here<\/a> to support this blog. Just kidding: album sales have nothing to do with this blog, but it&#8217;s a good album so buy it anyway. <\/p>\n<p>Somewhere along the line we came up with the idea for a &#8220;virtual archeological dig,&#8221; and today the thing actually happened. <\/p>\n<p>SO, La Cieca over at <a href=\"http:\/\/parterre.com\/2009\/10\/27\/statuesque-puzzle\/\">parterre.com<\/a> kicks things off. Follow the clues to 8 other sites and answer questions to reveal puzzle pieces <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xeroproject.com\/clients\/Bartolipuzzle\/\">here<\/a>. Last clue is at The <a href=\"http:\/\/irontongue.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/making-ultimate-sacrificium-virtual.html\"><i>Iron Tongue of Midnight<\/i><\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working on the US press for the new Cecilia Bartoli album, Sacrificium, which not unlike Michael Jackson&#8217;s new album, came out this week. Buy it here to support this blog. Just kidding: album sales have nothing to do with this blog, but it&#8217;s a good album so buy it anyway. Somewhere along the line [&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-360","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\/360","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=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}