{"id":6053,"date":"2010-06-09T08:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6053"},"modified":"2010-06-09T08:26:35","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T13:26:35","slug":"the_problem_the_public_theater_created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/06\/the_problem_the_public_theater_created.html","title":{"rendered":"The Problem The Public Theater Created"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And of course the simple way to fix it is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/arts\/2010\/06\/09\/2010-06-09_so_much_for_free_businessman_sells_pricey_tickets_to_skip_long_line_for_shakespe.html\">not relying on film and television starts like Al Pacino in the first place<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A band of amateur businessmen have launched a service that lets theatergoers skip the line for Shakespeare in the Park &#8212; always one of the hottest free tickets in town.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how it works: Hand over anywhere from $75 to $125 to a professional line-sitter and you can forgo the mind- and butt-numbing side effects of queuing up for a fix of the classics. Al Pacino starring as Shylock in &#8220;The Merchant of Venice&#8221; promises to be a must-see show this season.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe this is part of what they meant when they said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2010\/30-million-cut-we-can%E2%80%99t-afford\">&#8220;For every one dollar, we generate eight&#8221;<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/manhattan\/centralpark\/delacortetheater\/index.htm\">Delacorte Theater<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And of course the simple way to fix it is not relying on film and television starts like Al Pacino in the first place: A band of amateur businessmen have launched a service that lets theatergoers skip the line for Shakespeare in the Park &#8212; always one of the hottest free tickets in town. . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class_war","category-everyone_is_to_blame_here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6053"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6057,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053\/revisions\/6057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}