{"id":366,"date":"2012-10-17T20:20:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T00:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/?p=366"},"modified":"2012-10-17T20:20:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T00:20:28","slug":"opera-convo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/2012\/10\/17\/opera-convo\/","title":{"rendered":"Opera Convo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mom received her masters in music from Rice University and taught voice and piano for several years when we lived in Vermont so she was the logical person in my family to ask about opera. \u00a0Immediately, she reminded me of the time we went to\u00a0<em>Carmen<\/em>\u00a0with my aunt and sister. \u00a0I was only about 6 at the time, so naturally I did not remember much about the show but she tried to explain how truly amazing the show was to her. \u00a0 My mom\u00a0has seen many other operas, and although she could not force the love onto my sister and me, she maintains a thorough respect for the art. \u00a0She mainly focused on the vibrant, crisp voices of the\u00a0performers, but also reflected on how she loved the exaggerated movement and acting. \u00a0The special effects, to her, were not as amazing as the passion that the performers seemed to have. \u00a0After our talk she noticed that she had not been to the opera in over 10 years and said she wanted to return&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom received her masters in music from Rice University and taught voice and piano for several years when we lived in Vermont so she was the logical person in my family to ask about opera. \u00a0Immediately, she reminded me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/2012\/10\/17\/opera-convo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1733,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","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\/366","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\/1733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}