{"id":4454,"date":"2011-08-07T01:12:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T00:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=4454"},"modified":"2011-08-07T01:12:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T00:12:12","slug":"is-musical-comedy-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/is-musical-comedy-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Is musical comedy, comedy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beingmattblair.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/06\/hey-edinburgh-cant-we-all-get-along\/\">\u00a0Matt Blair asks<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The question is\u2026 Would they turn to Bill Bailey, Rich Hall or Tim Minchin and call them cheats?\u00a0&#8230;For some reason, musical comedy has a a reputation for not being \u2018proper\u2019 comedy. The way I see it? If it makes you laugh, it\u2019s comedy. Musical comedy is just another genre of comedy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Matt Blair asks&#8230; The question is\u2026 Would they turn to Bill Bailey, Rich Hall or Tim Minchin and call them cheats?\u00a0&#8230;For some reason, musical comedy has a a reputation for not being \u2018proper\u2019 comedy. The way I see it? If it makes you laugh, it\u2019s comedy. Musical comedy is just another genre of comedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1145,25],"tags":[269,378,225,2867],"class_list":["post-4454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fringe-personal-thoughts-and-messages","category-link-log","tag-comedy","tag-fringe","tag-music","tag-six-stringed-applause-machine","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-19Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}