{"id":227,"date":"2007-10-19T23:06:14","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T23:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/19\/pushing-the-envelope\/"},"modified":"2015-10-07T11:56:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T11:56:08","slug":"pushing-the-envelope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2007\/10\/19\/pushing-the-envelope\/","title":{"rendered":"pushing the envelope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or thinking out of the box, or some other piece of management-speak.  What I mean is doing something I don&#8217;t usually do &#8211; in this case singing some Gilbert and Sullivan. I only do this rarely, but when I do I always find I enjoy it more than I thought I would.<\/p>\n<p>In this case it was a come-and-sing <em>Mikado<\/em>.  The chorus was carefully seeded with members of the local G &amp; S society so I was able to mug along with them on the less obvious bits.  Doing a whole opera, rather than just an excerpt, allows you to identify the various targets of the satire as they appear &#8211; everything from general officiousness to penny dreadfuls.  And it was the first come-and-sing performance I&#8217;ve been involved in where there were more in the audience than performing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or thinking out of the box, or some other piece of management-speak. What I mean is doing something I don&#8217;t usually do &#8211; in this case singing some Gilbert and Sullivan. I only do this rarely, but when I do &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2007\/10\/19\/pushing-the-envelope\/\">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":[21],"tags":[751,458,242],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227"}],"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=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3748,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/3748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}