{"id":44,"date":"2015-09-29T13:45:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T17:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/beggarsbriefs\/?page_id=44"},"modified":"2020-11-16T13:34:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T18:34:11","slug":"about-the-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/beggarsbriefs\/about-the-project\/","title":{"rendered":"About the project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Overview: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0This site provides a new digital edition of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Beggar\u2019s Opera <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">that will invite scholars, performers, teachers, and students from a variety of disciplines to engage in new ways with this very influential text, which invented a new genre (ballad opera), founded English musical theater, and stimulated adaptations ranging from Brecht and Weill\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Threepenny Opera <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to John Latouche and Duke Ellington\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Beggar\u2019s Holiday <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to Wole Soyinka\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Opera Wonyosi<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Overview: \u00a0This site provides a new digital edition of The Beggar\u2019s Opera that will invite scholars, performers, teachers, and students from a variety of disciplines to engage in new ways with this very influential text, which invented a new genre (ballad opera), founded English musical theater, and stimulated adaptations ranging from Brecht and Weill\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/beggarsbriefs\/about-the-project\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About the project<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":816,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-44","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/beggarsbriefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/beggarsbriefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/beggarsbriefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/beggarsbriefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/816"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/beggarsbriefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/beggarsbriefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/beggarsbriefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}