{"id":16640,"date":"2017-06-15T11:21:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T16:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16640"},"modified":"2017-06-15T11:21:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T16:21:03","slug":"its-a-bold-strategy-cotton-lets-see-if-it-pays-off-for-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/15\/its-a-bold-strategy-cotton-lets-see-if-it-pays-off-for-them\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s A Bold Strategy, Cotton; Let&#8217;s See If It Pays Off For Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we got the informational brochure for the upcoming season of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/ssorevolution.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/p>\n<p>Well, now.<\/p>\n<p>You might wonder if perhaps the SSO is showing sympathy for the &#8220;Resistance&#8221; to the current duly elected President of the United States.  Artistic types do tend to fall into the liberal camp.  But Springfield, and its denizens, tend to skew a little more conservative than the people in St. Louis. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the SSO is just trying to be topical and relevant with the unrest in the nation.  However, I don&#8217;t think people are willing to presume impartiality so much these days.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if the choice of focus quietly costs the SSO support or season ticket holders.  Time will tell, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>In a turn of events, the brochure arrived on the same day when a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/national\/govt-and-politics\/belleville-gunman-wounds-congressman-four-others-before-dying-in-virginia\/article_94f870a1-1556-5186-8c3f-d915bc6cc56c.html\" target=\"_new\">gunman opened fire on congressmen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we got the informational brochure for the upcoming season of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra: Well, now. You might wonder if perhaps the SSO is showing sympathy for the &#8220;Resistance&#8221; to the current duly elected President of the United States. Artistic types do tend to fall into the liberal camp. But Springfield, and its denizens, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-springfield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16640"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16644,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16640\/revisions\/16644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}