{"id":144,"date":"2013-04-04T07:24:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T07:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chirurgean.net\/?p=144"},"modified":"2018-02-11T11:50:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T11:50:48","slug":"201344thespians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Thespians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much excitement here in the run up to tomorrow night&#39;s opening of &ldquo;A Night at the Musicals 2 \u2013 This Time with Feeling&rdquo;: a FIODA Production in the Town Hall, Stanley.<\/p>\n<p>There are no reserved seats, so I suppose, it will be a lot like Ryan Air \u2013 albeit minus the Premium queue.  Previous shows have never failed to impress so I am hope for a good night. A full report will follow, perhaps with the risk of stealing the Penguin News&#39;s thunder.<\/p>\n<p>Iain M Banks<\/p>\n<p>Sad news on Sky and now all the papers about Iain Banks. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/booknews\/9968842\/Iain-Bankss-personal-statement-in-full.html\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/booknews\/9968842\/Iain-Bankss-personal-statement-in-full.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am a fan of his SF writing and &ldquo;The Culture&rdquo; novels and have been so for years. He writes those as Iain M Banks and his other novels (which in their way are often profoundly disturbing) as plain old Iain Banks. If you have not caught up on either styles, then I strongly recommend you lose no more time. I will keep Iain and his new wife in my thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much excitement here in the run up to tomorrow night&#39;s opening of &ldquo;A Night at the Musicals 2 \u2013 This Time with Feeling&rdquo;: a FIODA Production in the Town Hall, Stanley. There are no reserved seats, so I suppose, it will be a lot like Ryan Air \u2013 albeit minus the Premium queue. Previous shows have never failed to impress so I am hope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}