{"id":468,"date":"2003-12-03T09:40:20","date_gmt":"2003-12-03T17:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/12\/03\/angels-in-america-on-hbo\/"},"modified":"2003-12-03T09:40:20","modified_gmt":"2003-12-03T17:40:20","slug":"angels-in-america-on-hbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"Angels in America on HBO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about the rest of you, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/films\/angelsinamerica\/?ntrack_para1=feat_main_title\">I&#8217;m damned excited about this<\/a>. I&#8217;m definitely a Tony Kushner fan (among the quotes that no one ever reads on the right-hand bar of this blog is one from Kushner). I saw part one of <i>Angels in America<\/i> on Broadway in the mid-eighties, and at the time I found the show funny, politically on-target, human and thrilling.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m curious how it&#8217;ll play now. New York City in the mid-eighties, for anyone who was even remotely paying attention to the AIDs crisis in the gay community, felt genuinely apocalyptic, and that feeling is very present in the play. But of course the world didn&#8217;t end (it never does), and I wonder if the tone won&#8217;t make it seem bizarre or overstated nowadays. Still, I&#8217;m looking forward to it.<a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=order-36-hour-viagra\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about the rest of you, but I&#8217;m damned excited about this. I&#8217;m definitely a Tony Kushner fan (among the quotes that no one ever reads on the right-hand bar of this blog is one from Kushner). I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=468\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-and-admin-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}