{"id":21078,"date":"2021-02-13T08:50:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T16:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=21078"},"modified":"2021-02-13T08:50:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T16:50:46","slug":"not-a-good-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2021\/02\/13\/not-a-good-look\/","title":{"rendered":"not a good look"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"291\" data-attachment-id=\"21079\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2021\/02\/13\/not-a-good-look\/screen-shot-2021-02-13-at-8-47-23-am\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-13-at-8.47.23-AM.png?fit=1020%2C512&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1020,512\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Screen-Shot-2021-02-13-at-8.47.23-AM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-13-at-8.47.23-AM.png?fit=580%2C291&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-13-at-8.47.23-AM.png?resize=580%2C291&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-13-at-8.47.23-AM.png?resize=600%2C301&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-13-at-8.47.23-AM.png?resize=300%2C151&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-13-at-8.47.23-AM.png?resize=200%2C100&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-13-at-8.47.23-AM.png?resize=768%2C386&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-13-at-8.47.23-AM.png?w=1020&amp;ssl=1 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See what this is about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/skala_emily\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See what this is about here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_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-21078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-5tY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12645,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/08\/minnesota-orchestra-cancels-rest-of-season-whats-next\/","url_meta":{"origin":21078,"position":0},"title":"minnesota orchestra cancels rest of season, what&#8217;s next?","author":"Charles Noble","date":"May 8, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The management of the Minnesota Orchestra announced today that the rest of the 2012-2013 season is officially cancelled. 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