{"id":313,"date":"2007-07-27T23:07:56","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T04:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=313"},"modified":"2007-09-03T16:32:16","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T20:32:16","slug":"what-ive-been-watching-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;ve Been Watching (I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Handel&#8217;s <em>Julius Caesar<\/em> (<em>Giulio Cesare<\/em>), in English translation, conducted by Sir Charles McKerras, and starring Dame Janet Baker as Caesar. She was in fine form, but my favorite character was the villain, Cleopatra&#8217;s brother Ptolemy XIV, anachronistically described as &#8216;Pharaoh&#8217; and sung by James Bowman:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/Tolomeo.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>That Ptolemy was also Cleopatra&#8217;s husband was not, I think, mentioned. I wonder whether Mike Meyers saw this production and borrowed a few hints for Dr. Evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Handel&#8217;s Julius Caesar (Giulio Cesare), in English translation, conducted by Sir Charles McKerras, and starring Dame Janet Baker as Caesar. She was in fine form, but my favorite character was the villain, Cleopatra&#8217;s brother Ptolemy XIV, anachronistically described as &#8216;Pharaoh&#8217; and sung by James Bowman: That Ptolemy was also Cleopatra&#8217;s husband was not, I think, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-ive-been-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","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=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}