{"id":4250,"date":"2006-08-21T03:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2006\/08\/21\/a-little-part-of-me-died"},"modified":"2023-03-07T08:07:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T14:07:28","slug":"a-little-part-of-me-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2006\/08\/21\/a-little-part-of-me-died\/","title":{"rendered":"A little part of me died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The revival of Pirates of Penzance was a staple in my musical theater repertoire as a young girl.  Not only a funny show and fun to pretend I could sing along with the soprano, but it had two handsome pirates in thigh-high leather boots with luscious perms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2479\/230\/1600\/pop.0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/pop.0.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Though Kevin Kline&#8217;s charisma has a certain pull, my girlish crush fell on Frederic, played by Rex Smith.  Those earnest eyes, the tiny ponytail, the way he over-enunciated each and every word with those pouty lips.  I had forgotten about his capacity to make me swoon until we saw the play in Park City, prompting me to re-watch Amanda&#8217;s copy of the Joseph Papp production.<\/p>\n<p>But where is Rex now?  I think I heard he was doing more shows on Broadway, maybe even a Tony nomination or two.  Hmm, let&#8217;s wander over to his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rexsmith.com\/\">official website<\/a> . . .<\/p>\n<p>Is there anything sadder than this?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2479\/230\/1600\/rexcard5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/rexcard5.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The revival of Pirates of Penzance was a staple in my musical theater repertoire as a young girl. Not only a funny show and fun to pretend I could sing along with the soprano, but it had two handsome pirates in thigh-high leather boots with luscious perms. Though Kevin Kline&#8217;s charisma has a certain pull, [&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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11815,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions\/11815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}