{"id":10630,"date":"2020-07-12T22:55:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T05:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=10630"},"modified":"2020-07-12T22:55:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T05:55:58","slug":"ians-back-to-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/07\/12\/ians-back-to-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian&#8217;s Back to the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With theatre in a state of suspended animation, it comes as no surprise to us that <strong>Sir Ian McKellen <\/strong>has gotten antsy.&nbsp; So, imagine his delight when he was offered a job.&nbsp; And in the theatre, no less.&nbsp; And in a Shakespeare play.&nbsp; Heaven!&nbsp; The play?&nbsp; <strong><em>Hamlet<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Delightful \u2013 he has a long history with the show.&nbsp; Which role?&nbsp; The ghost?&nbsp; Polonius?&nbsp; The second gravedigger?&nbsp; Nope \u2013 Hamlet.&nbsp; Yes, Sir Ian is once again playing the melancholy prince of Denmark \u2013 roughly half a century since his first time as the great Dane.&nbsp; No one is quite sure when this production will be able to open, but McKellen was happy to commence rehearsals recently.&nbsp; \u201cSo now we will meet again.&nbsp; Don\u2019t know when, but do know where: <em>Theatre Royal Windsor<\/em>!\u201d&nbsp; Note that he invoked the words sung so often by the great <strong>Vera Lynn<\/strong>, who passed away a few weeks ago at the age of 103.&nbsp; I believe she was up for the role of Ophelia!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With theatre in a state of suspended animation, it comes as no surprise to us that Sir Ian McKellen has gotten antsy.&nbsp; So, imagine his delight when he was offered a job.&nbsp; And in the theatre, no less.&nbsp; And in a Shakespeare play.&nbsp; Heaven!&nbsp; The play?&nbsp; Hamlet.&nbsp; Delightful \u2013 he has a long history with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10631,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10630\/revisions\/10631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}