{"id":4047,"date":"2023-12-01T02:14:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T07:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/?p=4047"},"modified":"2023-12-01T02:14:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T07:14:33","slug":"the-dot-podcast-christmas-special-the-nutcracker-for-novices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2023\/12\/01\/the-dot-podcast-christmas-special-the-nutcracker-for-novices\/","title":{"rendered":"The DoT Podcast Christmas Special &#8211; The Nutcracker for Novices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I know I haven\u2019t dropped a new episode in a long time, but it\u2019s the holidays, and I love the holidays, so I wanted to present an audio version of my reaction to seeing The Nutcracker for the first time. This is my assessment of the story, using only the visual cues from the ballet as it was presented.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Merry Christmas and happy holidays!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Embed Player\" style=\"border:none\" src=\"https:\/\/play.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/28880288\/height\/192\/theme\/modern\/size\/large\/thumbnail\/yes\/custom-color\/275e19\/time-start\/00:00:00\/playlist-height\/200\/direction\/backward\/download\/yes\/font-color\/fcfafa\" height=\"192\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" oallowfullscreen=\"true\" msallowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I haven\u2019t dropped a new episode in a long time, but it\u2019s the holidays, and I love the holidays, so I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[331,11,1],"tags":[618,1605,786,2542,1751,616],"class_list":["post-4047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essays","category-podcast","category-uncategorized","tag-ballet","tag-christmas","tag-essays","tag-holiday","tag-humor","tag-the-nutcracker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nutcracker-Cover.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lGwW-13h","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4047"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4051,"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047\/revisions\/4051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}