{"id":7088,"date":"2011-11-28T14:06:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T22:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=7088"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:58:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:58:41","slug":"oso-surplus-in-huffington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/28\/oso-surplus-in-huffington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"OSO surplus in Huffington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Kaiser, President of the Kennedy Center in D.C., is a regular contributor to the online left-leaning news site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/www.huffingtonpost.com\">The Huffington Post<\/a>. Turns out his most recent column concerned a certain Portland-based orchestra that has run some recent surpluses &#8211; click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/every-arts-organization-h_b_1116030.html\">here<\/a> for his take on the recent successes of the Oregon Symphony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Kaiser, President of the Kennedy Center in D.C., is a regular contributor to the online left-leaning news site The Huffington Post. Turns out his most recent column concerned a certain Portland-based orchestra that has run some recent surpluses &#8211; click here for his take on the recent successes of the Oregon Symphony.<\/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":[1783,225,2],"tags":[2872,2873,2533,3668,2871],"class_list":["post-7088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration-the-orchestra-world-music","category-bloggers","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-elaine-calder","tag-huffingtonpost-com","tag-michael-kaiser","tag-oregon-symphony","tag-surplus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1Qk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5117,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/28\/to-cut-or-not-to-cut-that-is-the-question\/","url_meta":{"origin":7088,"position":0},"title":"to cut, or not to cut, that is the question","author":"Charles Noble","date":"July 28, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"It shows how quickly the blog-based news cycle moves, that I delay a response to something I've read and I'm beat to my reply by a fellow violist (or as Robert Levine would put it: Bratsche Blogging Brother) in Minneapolis! 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