{"id":25910,"date":"2015-01-14T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=25910"},"modified":"2015-01-04T22:57:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T03:57:48","slug":"qotd-opera-snobbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/01\/14\/qotd-opera-snobbery\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Opera snobbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Opera makes things double tricky. A big swath of humanity regards fondness for opera as highbrow in itself. The merest acquaintance with truly dedicated opera buffs will set you right on that. To them, brow-height-wise, the <em>bel canto<\/em> style that owns my affections \u2014 which is to say, early 19th-century Italian opera \u2014 ranks somewhere down there with roller derby and monster truck shows. <\/p>\n<p>John Derbyshire, <a href=\"http:\/\/takimag.com\/article\/confessions_of_a_middlebrow_john_derbyshire\/print#axzz32TYZFYcf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Confessions of a Middlebrow&#8221;, <em>Taki&#8217;s Magazine<\/em><\/a>, 2014-05-22<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opera makes things double tricky. A big swath of humanity regards fondness for opera as highbrow in itself. The merest acquaintance with truly dedicated opera buffs will set you right on that. To them, brow-height-wise, the bel canto style that owns my affections \u2014 which is to say, early 19th-century Italian opera \u2014 ranks somewhere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,28,41],"tags":[200,907],"class_list":["post-25910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","category-quotations","tag-music","tag-snobbery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6JU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25911,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25910\/revisions\/25911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}