{"id":796,"date":"2011-10-19T17:46:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T21:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/?p=796"},"modified":"2011-10-19T17:58:16","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T21:58:16","slug":"root-root-root-for-the-symphonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2011\/10\/root-root-root-for-the-symphonies\/","title":{"rendered":"Root root root for the symphonies!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Series starts tonight and I don&#8217;t care because the Yankees were an unmitigated post-season disaster. I will try and be happy for the two teams that made it, though, if only because both cities have very good symphony orchestras.<\/p>\n<p>The St. Louis Symphony has already stepped up to the plate&#8230;ba-ZING!&#8230;and taped themselves in Cardinals&#8217; gear playing &#8216;Take Me Out To The Ballgame&#8221;. They sound darn good, too:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/30561138?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=c41230\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But now it&#8217;s BETTIN&#8217; time. The Dallas Symphony asked the St. Louis Symphony <a title=\"Dallas Symphony Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/DallasSymphony\/status\/125967898261991425\">on Twitter<\/a> if they should bet on the Series. John Clare at Texas Public Radio suggested that the losing team&#8217;s orchestra has to play &#8216;Take Me Out To The Ballgame&#8217; at their first concert after the Series with the music director&#8211;that would be Jaap Van Zweden or David Robertson, no guest conductor mumbo jumbo&#8211;wearing the opposing, winning, team&#8217;s baseball cap for all their hometown audience to see.<\/p>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s it going to be? The World Series starts in a few hours. Let&#8217;s get a bet on the table!<\/p>\n<p>Also, if Nolan Ryan wants to <a title=\"Mayoral bet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/political-fix\/article_c8b98bfe-f999-11e0-bfc8-0019bb30f31a.html\">send me some steaks<\/a>, too, he could definitely buy my loyalty. Yes, I&#8217;m that easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Series starts tonight and I don&#8217;t care because the Yankees were an unmitigated post-season disaster. I will try and be happy for the two teams that made it, though, if only because both cities have very good symphony orchestras. The St. Louis Symphony has already stepped up to the plate&#8230;ba-ZING!&#8230;and taped themselves in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798,"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-796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","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=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}