{"id":352,"date":"2012-10-15T16:09:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T20:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/?p=352"},"modified":"2012-10-15T16:09:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T20:09:59","slug":"opera-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/2012\/10\/15\/opera-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Opera Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I got home for break, I had a brief conversation with my mom about opera.\u00a0 Being more mature and knowledgeable than me, I hoped she would have some further incite on the topic.\u00a0 She said that she thinks Opera is very beautiful and she really enjoyed the lavish sets and costumes involved in the productions.\u00a0 This was an answer that I expected from her, and I feel the same way.\u00a0 But then she went on to say that she enjoys them more when they are in English or have subtitles.\u00a0 She then reminded me of a time when we saw a mini opera when I was younger and that she enjoyed that greatly.<\/p>\n<p>I was a little surprised she commented about the language because the languages and voices are so beautiful regardless of how well they are understood.\u00a0 I thought that it was just younger generations that were bothered by the language burrier, but I guess many others, like my mom, think that way too.\u00a0 No matter the art, it seems to always be better appreciated when it can be fully understood by the audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I got home for break, I had a brief conversation with my mom about opera.\u00a0 Being more mature and knowledgeable than me, I hoped she would have some further incite on the topic.\u00a0 She said that she thinks Opera &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/2012\/10\/15\/opera-conversation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}