{"id":2323,"date":"2016-10-31T04:35:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T11:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2016-10-31T04:35:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T11:35:45","slug":"feds-lockdown-the-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/10\/31\/feds-lockdown-the-met\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds lockdown the MET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Saturday matinee performance of <em>Rossini<\/em>&#8216;s opera <strong><em>William Tell<\/em><\/strong> at the <em>Metropolitan Opera <\/em>in NYC was stopped before the last act and the audience was ushered out while local police and federal agents investigated.\u00a0 During the intermission, a suspicious-looking man walked down to the front of the theatre, reached into a black bag and then sprinkled some powder into the orchestra pit.\u00a0 An orchestra member reported this activity and the theatre worried about a possible terrorist attack &#8211; because if there&#8217;s one thing ISIS hates more than <strong>Hillary Clinton<\/strong>, it&#8217;s opera!\u00a0 Turns out, the culprit was <strong>Roger Kaiser<\/strong>, a 52-year-old opera buff from Dallas who had flown up to NYC specifically to go to the <em>Met <\/em>and scatter some ashes of his friend and mentor.\u00a0 While leaving ashes in special places like <em>Broadway <\/em>theatres, sports arenas, etc. is a common occurrence, it&#8217;s foolish in these hypersensitive times.\u00a0 Thus far, Kaiser is not being charged with any crime.\u00a0 <em>Met <\/em>head honcho <strong>Peter Gelb <\/strong>said, &#8220;We appreciate opera lovers coming to the <em>Met<\/em>; we hope that they will not bring their ashes with them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saturday matinee performance of Rossini&#8216;s opera William Tell at the Metropolitan Opera in NYC was stopped before the last act and the audience was ushered out while local police and federal agents investigated.\u00a0 During the intermission, a suspicious-looking man walked down to the front of the theatre, reached into a black bag and then<\/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-2323","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\/2323","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=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2328,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions\/2328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}