{"id":519,"date":"2007-11-06T12:32:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T19:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/06\/where-have-all-the-critics-gone\/"},"modified":"2013-02-07T18:19:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T02:19:47","slug":"where-have-all-the-critics-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/06\/where-have-all-the-critics-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"where have all the critics gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Teachout writes on the demise of the professional arts critic in his piece for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/www.commentarymagazine.com\"><em>Commentary Magazine<\/em><\/a> entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/viewarticle.cfm?id=10980\">&#8220;The Amateur as Critic&#8221;<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s worth a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Teachout writes on the demise of the professional arts critic in his piece for Commentary Magazine entitled &#8220;The Amateur as Critic&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s worth a look.<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[148,115],"tags":[117],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appreciations","category-music","tag-critic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-8n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":962,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/12\/seattle-loses-long-time-music-critic\/","url_meta":{"origin":519,"position":0},"title":"Seattle loses long-time music critic &#8211; is Portland next?","author":"Charles Noble","date":"May 12, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Melinda Bargreen, classical music critic in Seattle for the past 30 years, has accepted a buy-out from the Seattle Times as part of a restructuring of the paper's staff. 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