{"id":1928,"date":"2010-08-30T22:07:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T21:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2024-11-01T21:15:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T20:15:26","slug":"cirkus_maximum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2010\/08\/30\/cirkus_maximum\/","title":{"rendered":"Cirkus Maximum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nYesterday Ingrid and I went to the circus. (Eric was away in Italy, carousing with colleagues.) We&rsquo;d been looking forward to it for a week, especially with all the posters everywhere.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd what a disappointment the show was. A dull performance with unimaginative numbers, not exactly badly performed but totally uninspiring. Two of the numbers seemed to be pure fillers, to make the time pass: musicians in shiny circus attire playing ordinary musical instruments in the middle of the scene. If I wanted to listen to a guy play the trumpet, I&rsquo;d go to a concert, not the circus. During the break children were offered pony and camel rides (for a fee), or to go backstage and see the animals (for a fee, again) &ndash; and that&rsquo;s on top of the steep ticket price.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNote to self: stay away from Circus Maximum, and probably from all such travelling circuses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Ingrid and I went to the circus. (Eric was away in Italy, carousing with colleagues.) We&rsquo;d been looking forward to it for a week, especially with all the posters everywhere. And what a disappointment the show was. A dull performance with unimaginative numbers, not exactly badly performed but totally uninspiring. Two of the numbers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,798],"tags":[613,614],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art_entertainment","category-circus","tag-circus","tag-cirkus_maximum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19723,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions\/19723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}