{"id":25336,"date":"2017-07-28T08:42:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T16:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=25336"},"modified":"2017-07-27T10:58:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T18:58:31","slug":"a-word-about-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=25336","title":{"rendered":"A word about Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The girls were fans of the musical Hamilton before <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=25009\">seeing it<\/a> in the spring, but now they&#8217;re <em>really<\/em> big fans. It&#8217;s no exaggeration to say that the soundtrack is\u00c2\u00a0<em>all<\/em> they listen to (Q got so sick of it that we once issued a temporary ban in the house and car) and they now have most of the lyrics to the 46 songs memorized. We all quote the musical on a daily basis, we&#8217;re huge fans of a 285-page book on the show, and we reference Daveed and Lin (actors in the original cast) as if we know them.<\/p>\n<p>I read somewhere that Hamilton is like Frozen for adults &#8211; and I certainly have been reminded of the Frozen days these past few months. But people&#8217;s love for the show (certainly mine and the girls&#8217;) goes way deeper than anything I&#8217;ve seen before. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s the music, the lyrics, the charismatic stars, the unique way the show captures history, or a combination of it all &#8211; but the show has crawled into our hearts and minds and won&#8217;t let go.<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Avery-reading-Hamilton-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Avery-reading-Hamilton-small.jpg 403w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Avery-reading-Hamilton-small-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The girls were fans of the musical Hamilton before seeing it in the spring, but now they&#8217;re really big fans. It&#8217;s no exaggeration to say that the soundtrack is\u00c2\u00a0all they listen to (Q got so sick of it that we once issued a temporary ban in the house and car) and they now have most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-97-two-kids-july-sept-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25336"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25402,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25336\/revisions\/25402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}