{"id":855,"date":"2011-10-21T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/?p=855"},"modified":"2011-10-21T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T18:40:00","slug":"the-twentieth-century-a-pantomime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/21\/the-twentieth-century-a-pantomime\/","title":{"rendered":"The twentieth century: a pantomime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just been\u00c2\u00a0commissioned\u00c2\u00a0by Surrey County Council to write the 2011 Guildford pantomime. I have decided to write a light hearted look at the twentieth century. There will be one minute for every year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The characters:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The dame &#8211; capitalism<\/li>\n<li>The villain &#8211; totalitarianism<\/li>\n<li>The hero &#8211; democracy<\/li>\n<li>The love interest &#8211; socialism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Plot summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The show will consist of ten scenes, one for each decade. For each new decade the dame will get a new dress. The final scene will be a cocktail party on the roof of the twin towers.<\/p>\n<p><em>News flash &#8211; Surrey County Council has just cancelled the contract.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/images\/signature.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"123\" border=\"0px\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just been\u00c2\u00a0commissioned\u00c2\u00a0by Surrey County Council to write the 2011 Guildford pantomime. I have decided to write a light hearted look at the twentieth century. There will be one minute for every year. The characters: The dame &#8211; capitalism &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/21\/the-twentieth-century-a-pantomime\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[42,19],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-searing-political-satire","tag-history","tag-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}