{"id":23322,"date":"2020-05-17T08:30:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T15:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=23322"},"modified":"2020-05-17T08:36:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T15:36:58","slug":"giant-tap-dancing-noses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2020\/05\/17\/giant-tap-dancing-noses\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant tap-dancing noses!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BOOGIE DOWN: Enjoy the tap-dancing stylings of these GIANT NOSES!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class='flex-video widescreen'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The giant tap-dancing noses scene from Shostakovich&#039;s The Nose (The Royal Opera)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YotMwwixPsw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>That video is from a 2016 production of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dmitri_Shostakovich\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dmitry Shostakovich<\/a>\u2018s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Nose_(opera)\"><em>The Nose<\/em><\/a> but the opera itself is much older, first debuting in 1929:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Shostakovich was only 20 when he began writing\u00a0<em>The Nose<\/em>, his operatic debut. He turned to a tiny short story by Gogol: an absurdist satire, where a civil servant\u2019s errant nose launches its owner on a ludicrous battle against both nose and the authorities, as bureaucratic processes break down in the face of so unusual a problem. Gogol\u2019s surrealist fable fired Shostakovich\u2019s imagination, and he responded with a work of exuberant energy, full of musical jokes and grotesque parody\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2020\/05\/16\/Tap-Dancing-Noses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neatorama<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thekidshouldseethis.com\/post\/the-giant-tap-dancing-noses-of-shostakovichs-the-nose\">TKSST<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOOGIE DOWN: Enjoy the tap-dancing stylings of these GIANT NOSES!!! That video is from a 2016 production of\u00a0Dmitry Shostakovich\u2018s\u00a0The Nose but the opera itself is much older, first debuting in 1929: Shostakovich was only 20 when he began writing\u00a0The Nose, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23329,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23322\/revisions\/23329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}