{"id":21184,"date":"2025-01-16T06:47:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T12:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=21184"},"modified":"2025-01-08T19:37:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T01:37:55","slug":"2024-the-year-in-live-performances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/2024-the-year-in-live-performances\/","title":{"rendered":"2024: The Year In Live Performances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025_12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22363\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025_12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025_12.jpg 656w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025_12-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/a>2024 was an exceptionally slow year for live performances, as I managed to get out just a single time to see a play.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of February, Michael cashed in his Christmas present, and we headed into the city to see <em>Golden Girls: The Laughs Continue<\/em>, my first trip to the theater since seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/2022-the-year-in-live-performances\/\"><em>Clue<\/em><\/a> in 2022.\u00a0 It was, unbeknownst to me when I bought the tickets, a drag show, with gay men taking the parts of all of the characters.\u00a0 It ended up being a tad bit raunchier than the source material and it gave Michael and I a chance to hang together, something we haven&#8217;t been able to do much of since he got sick.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping 2025 has more opportunities for me to experience the live arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 was an exceptionally slow year for live performances, as I managed to get out just a single time to see a play. At the end of February, Michael cashed in his Christmas present, and we headed into the city to see Golden Girls: The Laughs Continue, my first trip to the theater since seeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[1530,668,11032,1522],"class_list":["post-21184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comedy","tag-christmas","tag-clue","tag-golden-girls-the-laughs-continue","tag-mdm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22364,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21184\/revisions\/22364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}