{"id":1161,"date":"2006-06-16T07:15:01","date_gmt":"2006-06-16T11:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2006-06-16T07:43:15","modified_gmt":"2006-06-16T11:43:15","slug":"chopin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2006\/06\/16\/chopin\/","title":{"rendered":"Chopin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Diane escorted me to the American Repertory Theatre to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amrep.org\/chopin\/\" target=\"_blank \">Monsieur Chopin <\/a>. This was the end of a two-day birthday celebration which began with polenta pie, presents and my traditional cherry pie dessert. Though I knew where we were going, Diane made me promise not to peek at the ART\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website. A surprise performance in lieu of a surprise party.<\/p>\n<p>That meant that while listening to Gunsmoke and nailing mahogany decking, I could fantasize about the conjunction of my desires and Diane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s intuition. Matthew had the day before been spot-on with his gift &#8211; a super, glow-in-the-dark popgun blaster.<\/p>\n<p>As we walked into the ART, the first poster we passed was for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Island Of Slaves.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Described as shipwreck survivors switching roles to learn lessons in humanity, I thought <em>uh oh<\/em>, until I noticed the long-ago production date. Tacked to the right of the ticket window, however, was the current play &#8211; Chopin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life, written, produced and acted by one man, Hershey Felder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Diane escorted me to the American Repertory Theatre to see Monsieur Chopin . This was the end of a two-day birthday celebration which began with polenta pie, presents and my traditional cherry pie dessert. Though I knew where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2006\/06\/16\/chopin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-michael-miller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}