{"id":383,"date":"2009-12-16T12:40:19","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T12:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=383"},"modified":"2009-12-16T12:40:19","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T12:40:19","slug":"in_which_i_am_pardoned_for_ste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2009\/12\/in_which_i_am_pardoned_for_ste\/","title":{"rendered":"In which I am pardoned for stealing electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I was told I was not allowed to plug in my MacBook Pro at Lincoln Center&#8217;s Alice Tully Hall cafe. Read the whole sordid tale <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2009\/12\/in-which-i-am-accused-of-steal.html\">here<\/a>, and about Nico Muhly&#8217;s similar indignity <a href=\"http:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/news\/2009\/alice-tully-hall-sounds-great\/\">here<\/a>. <\/font>And both of us have bought SO MUCH CAMPARI there. The waitress could not give me an explanation, though I received several e mails (none from Lincoln Center) suggesting that Alice Tully is a union house and those rules probably extend into the cafe area, so while they wouldn&#8217;t technically mind if I used their electricity (click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2009\/12\/in-which-i-am-accused-of-steal.html#comments\">here<\/a> for some hilarious commenter math on how much I owe the hall), a stagehand would have had to plug in my computer for me. I mean&#8230;fine. Rules are rules. <\/p>\n<p>Or. Are. They. <\/p>\n<p>No they are not, it turns out! On December 14 at 1:54PM we were alerted via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Lincoln_Center\">Lincoln Center&#8217;s Twitter feed<\/a> about a change in policy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LincolnCenter.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/LincolnCenter.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"82\" width=\"500\" \/>Maybe we should all have a victory Campari party around the plug seat some time soon? I&#8217;ll just <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/amandaameer\">Tweet<\/a> when I&#8217;m there next and we can all gather round the plug and raise a glass. Let&#8217;s just try and not spill anything in the one plug, OK?<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the new Atrium, I need to investigate. It looks beautiful from the outside. <\/p>\n<p>Just one thing, if I may, Lincoln Center: I&#8217;m told many classical music presenters in the UK have automated ticket booths, like we have at movie theaters, train stations, etc.. Wouldn&#8217;t those look great in the Atrium??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I was told I was not allowed to plug in my MacBook Pro at Lincoln Center&#8217;s Alice Tully Hall cafe. Read the whole sordid tale here, and about Nico Muhly&#8217;s similar indignity here. And both of us have bought SO MUCH CAMPARI there. The waitress could not give me an explanation, though I [&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-383","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\/383","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=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}