{"id":537,"date":"2010-10-15T16:47:11","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T16:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=537"},"modified":"2010-10-15T16:47:11","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T16:47:11","slug":"in_which_we_learn_that_there_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2010\/10\/in_which_we_learn_that_there_i\/","title":{"rendered":"In which we learn that there is such thing as bad publicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Eric is the toast of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/musical\/2010\/10\/18\/101018crmu_music_ross\">(the) New York(er)<\/a> and Hilary has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IuZEc9H61gA\">on PBS<\/a>, I feel I can spend some time on more important matters, namely the bedbug infestations at the David H. Koch Theater (New York City Ballet, City Opera) and the Metropolitan Opera House. <\/p>\n<p>Via<i> <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2010\/10\/15\/bedbugs_spread_to_met_opera_house_c.php\">Gothamist<\/a> <\/i>today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2010\/10\/14\/highbrow_bedbugs_target_blue_bloods.php\">news broke<\/a> that classy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gothamist.com\/tags\/bedbugs\">bedbugs<\/a><br \/>\nwith a craving for blue blood had infiltrated a dressing room at<br \/>\nLincoln Center&#8217;s David H. Koch Theater, which is used by the New York<br \/>\nCity Ballet. Well hold onto your monocles, people: Not content with the<br \/>\ngossamer blood of ballerinas, the parasites have branched out to the<br \/>\nMetropolitan Opera House, where corpulent divas await. Late yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/metropolis\/2010\/10\/14\/bed-bugs-at-the-met\/\">the Met issued a statement<\/a><br \/>\nconfirming that &#8220;bedbugs were discovered in some isolated locations but<br \/>\nnot in any public areas. There was no evidence of infestation. Those<br \/>\nareas identified will be treated this afternoon.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Commenters on <i>Gothamist <\/i>have already started with the &#8220;How do you get to Carnegie Hall?&#8221; jokes. My dream is that someone will start Tweeting as the @lincolncenterbedbug (photo below). <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MetOperaBedBug.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/MetOperaBedBug.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"306\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Eric is the toast of (the) New York(er) and Hilary has been on PBS, I feel I can spend some time on more important matters, namely the bedbug infestations at the David H. Koch Theater (New York City Ballet, City Opera) and the Metropolitan Opera House. Via Gothamist today: Yesterday news broke that [&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-537","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\/537","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=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}