{"id":1002,"date":"2007-07-11T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2007-07-11T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T08:05:00","slug":"think_before_you_stand_up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2007\/07\/think_before_you_stand_up\/","title":{"rendered":"Think Before You Stand Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember our series of <em>Rifftides<\/em> riffs and exchanges about applause? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/archives\/2005\/12\/applause_report_1.html\"target=\"_blank\">It started like this<\/a>.<br \/>\nThen it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/archives\/2005\/12\/applause_applau_1.html\"trarget=\"_blank\">went here<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/archives\/2005\/12\/applause_coda_a.html\"target=\"_blank\">and here <\/a><br \/>\nIn the past year and a half, the issue has not gone away. <em>San Diego Union-Tribune<\/em> classical music critic Valerie Scher&#8217;s Sunday, July 8 column bore the headline,  &#8220;Think Before You Stand Up.&#8221; It began,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s a malady sweeping the nation that&#8217;s highly contagious to concertgoers. It doesn&#8217;t have a name yet, so let&#8217;s call it Excessive Ovation Syndrome (EOS for short). Those suffering from it stand and applaud at performances that aren&#8217;t good enough to deserve such enthusiasm. In extreme cases, they shout &#8220;Bravo!&#8221; during events that are best forgotten.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read all of Ms. Scher&#8217;s case for restraining misplaced enthusiasm, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/features\/20070708-9999-lz1a08sit.html\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>.<br \/>\nComments, as always, are welcome. If yours is for Valerie Scher, I&#8217;ll be happy to pass it along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember our series of Rifftides riffs and exchanges about applause? It started like this. Then it went here and here In the past year and a half, the issue has not gone away. San Diego Union-Tribune classical music critic Valerie Scher&#8217;s Sunday, July 8 column bore the headline, &#8220;Think Before You Stand Up.&#8221; It began, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}