{"id":862,"date":"2008-03-18T00:23:12","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T07:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/17\/and-the-award-for\/"},"modified":"2013-02-07T18:48:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T02:48:57","slug":"and-the-award-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/18\/and-the-award-for\/","title":{"rendered":"and the award for&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; the best description of a composer I&#8217;ve read so far:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;composer, pianist, and general gay dreamboat&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Said dreamboat being Thomas Ad\u00c3\u00a9s, according to the indefatigable (and evidently gushing) pen of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/no-excuses.html\">Out West Arts<\/a> (where you can find a thoughtfully provided photograph of Mr. Ad\u00c3\u00a9s).<br \/>\n<!--adsensestart--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; the best description of a composer I&#8217;ve read so far: &#8230;composer, pianist, and general gay dreamboat&#8230; Said dreamboat being Thomas Ad\u00c3\u00a9s, according to the indefatigable (and evidently gushing) pen of Out West Arts (where you can find a thoughtfully provided photograph of Mr. Ad\u00c3\u00a9s).<\/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":[225,299,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggers","category-conducting","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-dU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":875,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/23\/thomas-ades-nytimes-profile\/","url_meta":{"origin":862,"position":0},"title":"thomas ad\u00c3\u00a9s nytimes profile","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"G. 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