{"id":12864,"date":"2013-07-14T14:22:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T21:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=12864"},"modified":"2013-07-14T14:22:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T21:22:53","slug":"ravinia-mordor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/07\/14\/ravinia-mordor\/","title":{"rendered":"ravinia = mordor?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It just might – check out Michael Hovnanian’s hilarious new blog entry<\/a> from Ravinia…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It just might – check out Michael Hovnanian’s hilarious new blog entry from Ravinia…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":12865,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/image.mordor_banner_2-e1373836936338.png?fit=501%2C289&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-3lu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2938,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/04\/video-screens-symphony-concerts-good-or-bad\/","url_meta":{"origin":12864,"position":0},"title":"video screens @ symphony concerts – good or bad?","author":"Charles Noble","date":"August 4, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I came across an article from today's Chicago Sun-Times which asserts the success of the jumbotron-style video screens at the Ravinia Festival, summer home of the Chicago Symphony.\u00a0 As usual, this has engendered the tired arguments between the crusty old salts and the fresh-faced ingenues as to what a travesty\/triumph\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "appreciation"","block_context":{"text":"appreciation","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/appreciations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12482,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/20\/a-legend-steps-down\/","url_meta":{"origin":12864,"position":1},"title":"a legend steps down","author":"Charles Noble","date":"February 20, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Chicago Symphony has announced that its principal horn for the past 47 seasons, Dale Clevenger, will retire effective June 30, 2013. 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