{"id":1596,"date":"2007-04-15T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-15T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2007-04-15T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-15T13:44:00","slug":"pearls-before-swine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1596","title":{"rendered":"Pearls before swine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/04\/AR2007040401721.html?hpid=topnews\">The washington post<\/a> did a little stunt where they put one of the finest young classical violin players in the world, playing his Stradivarius violin, out in a Metro station to see if anyone would care.<\/p>\n<p>Nope.  He played for 45 minutes.  A couple of people stopped to listen.  He got $32 in donations.  <\/p>\n<p>$32 in donations &#8230; in the case that carries his $3.5M violin.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The washington post did a little stunt where they put one of the finest young classical violin players in the world, playing his Stradivarius violin, out in a Metro station to see if anyone would care.<\/p>\n<p>Nope. He played for 45 minutes. A couple of people stopped to listen. He got $32 in donations. <\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1596\">Pearls before swine<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}