{"id":416,"date":"2006-03-23T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=416"},"modified":"2006-03-23T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-23T09:05:00","slug":"the_lunch_wont_be_free_either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2006\/03\/the_lunch_wont_be_free_either\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lunch Won&#8217;t Be Free, Either"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <em>ArtsJournal<\/em> commander-in-chief Doug McLennan for calling our attention, by way of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/\"target=\"_blank\">daily digest<\/a>, to this story from the <em>San Jose Mercury-News<\/em> :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>San Jose&#8217;s summer jazz festival calls itself the &#8220;largest free jazz festival in the United States.&#8221; But that designation may be about to change. The festival may have to start charging: $5 a person for an all-day pass. &#8220;The reason for the charge: rising operational fees coupled with a loss of corporate sponsors Ford, Chevron and Applied Materials. The festival costs almost $1 million and, much to their disappointment, organizers said, only $60,000 comes from a city that has just designated $4 million for a car race.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read the whole story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/news\/local\/states\/california\/the_valley\/14149493.htm\"target=\"_blanki\">go here<\/a>.<br \/>\nAllow me to remind you that <em>ArtsJournal<\/em> bloggers write regularly on music, the visual arts, architecture, media, publishing, theater, dance and the business side of culture. It is a smorgasboard of expertise under one web umbrella. To sample it, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/blogs\/\"target=\"_blank\">AJ BLOGS CENTRAL<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to ArtsJournal commander-in-chief Doug McLennan for calling our attention, by way of his daily digest, to this story from the San Jose Mercury-News : San Jose&#8217;s summer jazz festival calls itself the &#8220;largest free jazz festival in the United States.&#8221; But that designation may be about to change. The festival may have to start [&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-416","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\/416","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=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}