{"id":73696,"date":"2020-03-30T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73696"},"modified":"2020-03-28T16:35:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T21:35:40","slug":"tone-deaf-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73696","title":{"rendered":"Tone Deaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moments after the president signed the biggest bailout bill in American history \u2013 which included tens of millions of dollars for the Kennedy Center &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/after-25-million-stimulus-stunned-nso-players-receive-one-week-notice-from-kennedy-center\/2020\/03\/28\/9c27603e-7118-11ea-aa80-c2470c6b2034_story.html\">The Center laid off the entire National Symphony Orchestra<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hours after President Trump signed a stimulus bill that includes $25 million for the Kennedy Center, its president Deborah Rutter told the National Symphony Orchestra that their paychecks would end this week..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>In a conference call Friday night, Rutter told orchestra leaders that the 96 musicians would receive their last paycheck on April 3 and that they will not be paid until the arts center reopens. In addition, she said their health care benefits would stop at the end of May if the arts center is still closed at that time. The announcement was characterized by several NSO members as a shock.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While the orchestra is out on the streets, does anyone want to place any bets on how many key Democrat party figures and donors will get a boost from the taxpayer bonanza?\ufffc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moments after the president signed the biggest bailout bill in American history \u2013 which included tens of millions of dollars for the Kennedy Center &#8211; The Center laid off the entire National Symphony Orchestra: Hours after President Trump signed a stimulus bill that includes $25 million for the Kennedy Center, its president Deborah Rutter told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73696","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=73696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73697,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73696\/revisions\/73697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}