{"id":180,"date":"2007-12-11T21:48:07","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T02:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/2007\/12\/11\/this-is-my-box-this-is-my-box\/"},"modified":"2007-12-11T21:48:07","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T02:48:07","slug":"this-is-my-box-this-is-my-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/2007\/12\/11\/this-is-my-box-this-is-my-box\/","title":{"rendered":"This is my box. This is my box."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never travel without my box.. . . I love &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artistdirect.com\/nad\/window\/media\/page\/0,,42981--WMLO,00.html\">Amahl and the Night Visitors<\/a>.&#8221; It was the first operetta written for television. By Menotti in 1951. I don&#8217;t remember seeing it then of course, but not that many years after. And every year after that for many years. John and I used to go around singing parts of it to each other. &#8220;Ohhh, Little Boy. . . Ohhh, Little Boy. . in the third drawer&#8212;-LICORICE! LICORICE! Sweet, black licorice!&#8221; We went to see it some time in the &#8217;90&#8217;s in Berea. I don&#8217;t remember if Wayne was still alive, but I think I took all three of the the kids. Caitlan and I went to see it last night at Centre. It was fun to be there with her. The girl playing the part of the mother had a wonderful voice. The fact that the girl playing Amahl was taller than her mother was a little off-putting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never travel without my box.. . . I love &#8220;Amahl and the Night Visitors.&#8221; It was the first operetta written for television. By Menotti in 1951. I don&#8217;t remember seeing it then of course, but not that many years after. And every year after that for many years. John and I used to go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,50,31,72,48,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}