{"id":56008,"date":"2014-10-23T21:28:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T01:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56008"},"modified":"2014-10-23T21:28:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T01:28:04","slug":"but-i-just-dont-much-like-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56008","title":{"rendered":"But I just don&#8217;t much like Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TSO&#8217;s posts prompted this! I reckon if he can belittle (SAVAGES!) us for our answers to his poll I can post this:<\/p>\n<p>One of the most difficult concepts to communicate, for me anyway, is that I can admire the vocal skill and emotive chops of an opera star&#8230; BUT I still wouldn&#8217;t walk across the street to SEE an opera.<\/p>\n<p>Ballet dancers can do amazingly beautiful physical feats, BUT I have no interest in seeing a full ballet either.<\/p>\n<p>Like TSO I can admire a single athlete (although not quite with same\u00a0 fervor) without being interested in the team or sport.<\/p>\n<p>My point? Imagine if pro sports or the opera adopted a sort of &#8220;Radical Islamic Method&#8221; for dealing with potential fans?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t wear the correct team t-shirt or fall asleep during the third act and&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I kinda feel like that when I&#8217;m called a &#8220;SAVAGE&#8221; for having differing tastes.<\/p>\n<p>Aside: This is an attempt at humor. I you don&#8217;t GET IT I won&#8217;t be calling YOU a &#8220;SAVAGE&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TSO&#8217;s posts prompted this! I reckon if he can belittle (SAVAGES!) us for our answers to &hellip; <a title=\"But I just don&#8217;t much like Opera\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56008\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">But I just don&#8217;t much like Opera<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}