{"id":582,"date":"2014-04-03T08:49:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T15:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/?p=582"},"modified":"2014-04-03T08:49:38","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T15:49:38","slug":"afternoon-at-the-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/2014\/04\/03\/afternoon-at-the-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"Afternoon at the opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were a very lucky group this spring. Artists from Vancouver Opera worked with us (and another class at our school) twice each week for about five weeks. They introduced us to opera and performed for us but spent most of their time helping us write and perform our own (short) opera. They read a novel we had already studied (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wonder<\/span>, by RJ Palacio); helped us choose an event in the story to use; let us write the words for two arias; arranged parts of the music we could play on school instrument; and helped us rehearse &amp; perform our opera for our school on stage in our gym. It was a great experience and an absolutely WONDERful way to wrap up our last Friday before spring break. Thank you very much Colleen, Katrin, Ali, Rory, &amp; Russel for this inspiring introduction to opera!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were a very lucky group this spring. Artists from Vancouver Opera worked with us (and another class at our school) twice each week for about five weeks. They introduced us to opera and performed for us but spent most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/2014\/04\/03\/afternoon-at-the-opera\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}