{"id":222,"date":"2007-09-17T12:45:23","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T12:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/17\/composers-political-compass\/"},"modified":"2014-09-02T22:29:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T22:29:07","slug":"composers-political-compass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2007\/09\/17\/composers-political-compass\/","title":{"rendered":"Composers&#8217; political compass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had my attention drawn to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicalcompass.org\/composers\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.politicalcompass.org\/composers', 'this page');\">this page<\/a> on the Political Compass website.  It is, as they say, &#8216;largely for amusement&#8217;.  I&#8217;m not sure they really have Elgar right &#8211; I think his position is derived from judgements based on his music rather than from his expressed views.  And I don&#8217;t think we can be very sure Haydn was an authoritarian; since he earned his living largely as a courtier he had to be careful what he said.<\/p>\n<p>We are having a look at the <i>Independent<\/i>&#8216;s current series of booklet biographies of composers, but could think of quite a few people we&#8217;d be more interested in reading about than Puccini.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had my attention drawn to this page on the Political Compass website. It is, as they say, &#8216;largely for amusement&#8217;. I&#8217;m not sure they really have Elgar right &#8211; I think his position is derived from judgements based on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2007\/09\/17\/composers-political-compass\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[60,120,241],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2692,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/2692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}