{"id":67610,"date":"2018-08-08T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67610"},"modified":"2018-08-07T06:25:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T11:25:56","slug":"the-fringe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67610","title":{"rendered":"The Fringe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of the blog writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Marxist collectivism mixed with the egalitarian charm of Rousseau.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\tThe MN Fringe Festival is the most natural child of The Blue Blouse (\u0421\u0438\u043d\u044f\u044f \u0431\u043b\u0443\u0437\u0430) theatre troupes of early USSR.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Here you will find every SJW\/Artiste that suckles at the teats of state government and the Foundation Hive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citypages.com\/arts\/fringe-2018-after-25-years-minnesotas-massive-theater-fest-enters-a-new-era\/489659211\">big buzzword in this year&#8217;s prospectus<\/a> is the delivery of a limited number of Juried, Curated (read pre-censored) productions<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think that&#8217;s all true \u2013 at least in directly. Because the writer is correct \u2013 it&#8217;s impossible to calculate the damage that government subsidy of art has done to, well, Art.  And the Fringe Festival is often a great place to see what happens when society <u>pays for<\/u> way too many mediocre terrible artist to create too much &#8220;art&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of the blog writes: Marxist collectivism mixed with the egalitarian charm of Rousseau. The MN Fringe Festival is the most natural child of The Blue Blouse (\u0421\u0438\u043d\u044f\u044f \u0431\u043b\u0443\u0437\u0430) theatre troupes of early USSR. Here you will find every SJW\/Artiste that suckles at the teats of state government and the Foundation Hive. The big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-entitled-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67611,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67610\/revisions\/67611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}