{"id":3390,"date":"2010-11-18T06:46:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T10:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=3390"},"modified":"2010-11-22T17:12:50","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T21:12:50","slug":"for-he-is-an-englishman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=3390","title":{"rendered":"For He Is An Englishman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the birthday of humorous librettist, dramatist, and director W.S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert (1836-1911), a man who knew how to make a line scan perfectly. It makes singing his verses so very satisfying.<\/p>\n<p>In his honor, I post these sketches from a fabulous performance of <em>The Mikado<\/em>, probably Gilbert and Sullivan\u2019s best-known and most often performed comic opera. This one took place at the Pittsburgh Public Theater a few seasons back.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cJapanese\u201d names, like the nonsensical G&amp;S plots and their occasionally offensive point of view, must be taken, like most forms of entertainment, in historical context\u2014this one, that of a supremely confident 19th-century colonial power. It\u2019s still fun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Mikado1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3394\" title=\"Mikado\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Mikado1.jpg\" alt=\"Mikado\" width=\"432\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Mikado1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Mikado1-300x276.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the birthday of humorous librettist, dramatist, and director W.S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert (1836-1911), a man who knew how to make a line scan perfectly. It makes singing his verses so very satisfying. In his honor, I post these sketches from a fabulous performance of The Mikado, probably Gilbert and Sullivan\u2019s best-known and most<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=3390\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[55,94,17,129,96,3],"class_list":["post-3390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketchbook","tag-birthday","tag-music","tag-penink","tag-pennsylvania","tag-theater","tag-watercolor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3390"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3404,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390\/revisions\/3404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}