{"id":91,"date":"2009-03-16T19:50:56","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T01:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/?p=91"},"modified":"2009-03-16T14:01:10","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T20:01:10","slug":"picasso-at-the-lapin-agile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Picasso at the Lapin Agile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Kudos to Steve Martin for putting his money where his mouth is. An Oregon high school was forced to cancel a production of Martin\u2019s play \u201cPicasso at the Lapin Agile\u201d due to typical American Christian\/conservative idiocy about mature themes. Martin stepped in and helped them stage an off-campus performance at a nearby college<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">One has to wonder about these parents\u2026 Did they attend high school in Mayberry? Having seen the play in question when it was put on at MTC a few years back I have great difficulty seeing what their complaints are about. The so called mature themes are tame compared to a Monday morning discussion of the past weekend, much less other literature that is tackled in high school or (god forbid) a night of television.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">If you want to homeschool your kids and turn them into sheltered, useless human being with no social skills\u2026 do so\u2026 stop forcing everyone else\u2019s children to lower themselves to your level.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to Steve Martin for putting his money where his mouth is. An Oregon high school was forced to cancel a production of Martin\u2019s play \u201cPicasso at the Lapin Agile\u201d due to typical American Christian\/conservative idiocy about mature themes. Martin stepped in and helped them stage an off-campus performance at a nearby college \u00a0 One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[48,183],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theatre","tag-stupidity","tag-theatre"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3qtCo-1t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}