{"id":87,"date":"2011-03-07T11:34:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T11:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joesamuel.co.uk\/?p=87"},"modified":"2011-03-07T11:52:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T11:52:14","slug":"south-side-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joesamuel.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/07\/south-side-story\/","title":{"rendered":"South Side Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just returned from an amazing break in Madeira with the family, both old and young.\u00a0 We were fortunate enough to take a trip around the island on a day where there was cloud cover.\u00a0 I have not spent much time in mountainous places so have never witnessed the incredible feeling of looking down on clouds.\u00a0 I have increased the speed of these clips by 800%.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kptEZ6GNj7E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I am planning on putting together a montage and perhaps writing some music to go with it.\u00a0 I know that has already been done to incredible effect in Koyanisqaatsi, but I will give it a go!<\/p>\n<p>Maydays show on Saturday was fantastic.\u00a0 Our new Saturday night slot at the Komedia is working very well, and we can finally stop beating ourselves up about not generating an audience, we were sold out by Tuesday.\u00a0 Here is a wee clip&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vELJhobwGW0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you want to see and hear more, I have posted a slightly more detailed blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themaydays.co.uk\/blog\">www.themaydays.co.uk\/blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, West Side Story at the secondary school I teach at this week.\u00a0 The only consolation I can give myself at this stage is that this is exactly what I felt like before doing Les Mis with them last year.\u00a0 Utter hopelessness!\u00a0 Les Mis was a huge success and I can only assume that we will pull this one out of the bag as well.\u00a0 The only terrifying thing is that I have to play the piano part all the way through, and if the orchestra gets lost, then it is my job to keep the music going.\u00a0 All very well, but I think I might need to actually practise some of it at some stage before we open on Wednesday.\u00a0 Damn that Mr Bernstein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just returned from an amazing break in Madeira with the family, both old and young.\u00a0 We were fortunate enough to take a trip around the island on a day where there was cloud cover.\u00a0 I have not spent much time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joesamuel.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/07\/south-side-story\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joesamuel.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joesamuel.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joesamuel.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joesamuel.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joesamuel.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.joesamuel.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/www.joesamuel.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joesamuel.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joesamuel.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joesamuel.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}