{"id":46,"date":"2008-07-30T17:16:14","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T17:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=46"},"modified":"2008-07-30T17:16:14","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T17:16:14","slug":"sigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2008\/07\/sigh\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/#\/video\/living\/2008\/07\/30\/sotvo.fat.cat.wpvi\">This<\/a> was on the homepage of CNN.com today. The tagline: &#8220;Animal control officials had to put a stray 44-pound cat into foster care because they didn&#8217;t have a big enough cage.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>What I wouldn&#8217;t give to have footage of my artists on the homepage of CNN.com. Surely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RMBZS6iAp2I&amp;feature=related\">this<\/a> is just as interesting as the chubster cat? <\/p>\n<p>Apples and oranges, yes, but when I think about The Mainstream Media being the brass ring of most performing arts&#8217; publicists&#8217; lives, and then I actually look at what is covered by CNN.com, etc., I just have to wonder: why do we care so much?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was on the homepage of CNN.com today. The tagline: &#8220;Animal control officials had to put a stray 44-pound cat into foster care because they didn&#8217;t have a big enough cage.&#8221; What I wouldn&#8217;t give to have footage of my artists on the homepage of CNN.com. Surely this is just as interesting as the chubster [&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-46","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\/46","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=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}