{"id":210,"date":"2006-04-25T22:23:56","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T03:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.3\/~drweevil\/?p=210"},"modified":"2007-09-03T18:12:50","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T22:12:50","slug":"high-culture-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"High Culture Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The people at smartlist@smarttix.com keep sending me advertisements for New York shows, few of which look at all interesting. This one is an exception, though not in a good way:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>BUSH IS BAD &#8211; Now in its Eighth Smash Month! Take advantage of this special offer and save 25% through the end of May!<\/p>\n<p>BUSH IS BAD, which has been described as a cross between Forbidden Broadway and The Daily Show, offers catchy tunes, wickedly funny lyrics and scathing impersonations of the president and his dissembling gang of conspirators.  Among the best-reviewed new musicals of the season, it has been described as &#8220;savvy, uproarious, [and] delicious,&#8221; with &#8220;lyrics that draw blood and melodies that stick in the brain,&#8221; eliciting &#8220;raucous, borderline orgasmic reactions.&#8221; The New York Times declared that &#8220;Bush-hating has become fun again!&#8221; For a limited time, you can enjoy all of the scathing fun for just $18.75!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;UPROARIOUS, infectious FUN!&#8221; &#8211; Broadwayworld.com<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>No comment seems necessary, except that $18.75 is very low for a New York show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The people at smartlist@smarttix.com keep sending me advertisements for New York shows, few of which look at all interesting. This one is an exception, though not in a good way: BUSH IS BAD &#8211; Now in its Eighth Smash Month! Take advantage of this special offer and save 25% through the end of May! BUSH [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}