{"id":31399,"date":"2024-11-20T20:40:36","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T01:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=31399"},"modified":"2024-11-20T20:42:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T01:42:58","slug":"handels-queer-messiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/handels-queer-messiah\/","title":{"rendered":"Handel\u2019s Queer Messiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024-11-20_201853-1-1536x1241.jpg\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1241\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It took Handel a mere three or four weeks to compose his masterpiece, <em>Messiah<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s taken 280 years to make a mockery of it.<\/p>\n<p>London\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/foundlingmuseum.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Foundling Museum<\/a>, an enterprise dedicated to being <em>a force for change, <\/em>is celebrating Christmas with <em>A Queer Georgian Yuletide: Handel\u2019s Queer Messiah, an evening of intellectually-informed fun.<\/em> Rather like a root canal without anaesthetic.<\/p>\n<p>The Foundling Museum is funded by the UK government, the Arts Council England and takes its inspiration from the Lord of the Flies, Prince of Demons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took Handel a mere three or four weeks to compose his masterpiece, Messiah. It\u2019s taken 280 years to make a mockery of it. London\u2019s Foundling Museum, an enterprise dedicated to being a force for change, is celebrating Christmas with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/handels-queer-messiah\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-whats-left-of-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}