{"id":280,"date":"2018-06-04T00:28:11","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T00:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bragi.co.za\/wp\/?page_id=280"},"modified":"2018-06-04T00:28:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T00:28:11","slug":"singer-semele","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bragi.co.za\/index.php\/singer\/singer-semele\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer &#8211; Semele"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bragi participated in an odd premiere in the spring of 2003. \u00a0Odd, because this was the North-American first performance of an opera composed in 1707, almost 300 years prior to this performance.<\/p>\n<p>Florida State Opera put on John Eccles&#8217; Semele, from the libretto of William Congreve. 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No, not H\u00e4ndel&#8217;s Semele &#8211; this other guy also &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bragi.co.za\/index.php\/singer\/singer-semele\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Singer &#8211; Semele<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":228,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-280","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9XTWd-4w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bragi.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bragi.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bragi.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bragi.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bragi.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bragi.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/bragi.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/280\/revisions\/281"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bragi.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bragi.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}