{"id":3012,"date":"2006-09-27T10:50:26","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T17:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/27\/i-wonder-why-that-is\/"},"modified":"2006-09-27T10:57:52","modified_gmt":"2006-09-27T17:57:52","slug":"i-wonder-why-that-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/27\/i-wonder-why-that-is\/","title":{"rendered":"I Wonder Why That Is &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When plans to produce <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/article.pl?sid=06\/03\/22\/1435259\">My Name Is Rachel Corrie<\/a><\/em>, a play based on the journal entries of an American girl <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,,915711,00.html\">murdered<\/a> by the IDF for her pro-Palestinian activism, were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/world\/theatre-gets-stagefright-over-play-on-israeli-death-of-activist\/2006\/02\/28\/1141095740986.html\">canceled<\/a> in New York City this year, in the U.S. we only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20060403\/weiss\">read about it<\/a> in <em>The Nation<\/em>. When plans to put on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Idomeneo\"><em>Idomeneo<\/em><\/a>, a Mozart opera, in Germany were recently canceled to placate Muslim sensibilities &#8212; the original has nothing to do with Muslims, or Mohammed, but the &#8220;post-modern&#8221; version that was being planned featured a scene involving the Prophet&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playbillarts.com\/news\/article\/5298.html\">severed head<\/a> being brought out onto the stage &#8212; we read about it &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?hl=en&#038;ned=us&#038;q=idomeneo+\">everywhere<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Go figure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When plans to produce My Name Is Rachel Corrie, a play based on the journal entries of an American girl murdered by the IDF for her pro-Palestinian activism, were canceled in New York City this year, in the U.S. we only read about it in The Nation. When plans to put on Idomeneo, a Mozart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}