{"id":974,"date":"2002-04-14T13:48:38","date_gmt":"2002-04-14T20:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/8stars.org\/aa\/2002\/04\/14\/the-show-did-go-on-sort-of\/"},"modified":"2002-04-14T13:48:38","modified_gmt":"2002-04-14T20:48:38","slug":"the-show-did-go-on-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/2002\/04\/14\/the-show-did-go-on-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"The show did go on. Sort of."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagestation.com\/album\/?id=4291904287\">the show did go on<\/a>, just not quite as planned.<\/p>\n<p>We wound up doing it in the backyard of Amber&#8217;s house&#8211;Amber being one of the performers. About 30 spectators showed, and I think they enjoyed it.<\/p>\n<p>While it was extremely frustrating and stomach-churning to have our sponsor default in the eleventh hour, and it would have been really nice to get the money for the show, I&#8217;m actually pretty happy with the way things turned out for a lot of reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The money on offer didn&#8217;t come close to fairly compensating us for the amount of prep time that went into the show&#8211;in a way, it&#8217;s better to give away your efforts than to be meanly remunerated for them.\n<li>We all learned a lot from doing this&#8211;it was a valuable experience.\n<li>I discovered it was nice to be doing the show just for us, rather than for a sponsor.\n<li>We had fun\n<li>In the end, I&#8217;m not unhappy that I&#8217;m not working for this particular sponsor, which is Camel cigarettes. I had been holding my nose all along, and now, since I&#8217;m not taking their money, I can be morally superior and smug.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the show did go on, just not quite as planned. We wound up doing it in the backyard of Amber&#8217;s house&#8211;Amber being one of the performers. About 30 spectators showed, and I think they enjoyed it. While it was extremely frustrating and stomach-churning to have our sponsor default in the eleventh hour, and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}