{"id":686,"date":"2012-12-18T20:21:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T01:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=686"},"modified":"2012-12-20T07:42:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T12:42:00","slug":"im-wicked-confused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=686","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Wicked Confused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-687\" alt=\"wicked\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/wicked.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"240\" \/>The touring company of the Broadway musical <em>Wicked<\/em> recently <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.syracuse.com\/arts\/2010\/01\/wicked_to_open_wednesday_for_t.html\">came to nearby Syracuse<\/a>, and the event inspired a great deal of punning on the name.\u00a0 Now, I understand why a musical with a name that is an adjective is a tempting target for this sort of thing, but this particular adjective is kind of tricky for this.\u00a0 For instance, the &#8220;wicked opportunity&#8221; for a local understudy detailed in one newspaper article.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think a &#8220;wicked opportunity&#8221; is a thing, really.\u00a0 Now, if the Musical had been called <em>Golden<\/em>, that would have worked (note to producers of James Bond films: call me about my idea for an adaptation of <em>Goldfinger<\/em>).\u00a0 Worse yet, I saw a newspaper refer to the arrival if the touring company as &#8220;something wicked this way comes&#8221;, which is just confusing, literary-wise.<\/p>\n<p>They really would have been better off embracing a South Boston ethos and just using it as an adverb &#8211; there are all sorts of opportunities there, since you could just insert a word like &#8220;awesome&#8221; and make everything fit.\u00a0 That would have been wicked smaht.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The touring company of the Broadway musical Wicked recently came to nearby Syracuse, and the event inspired a great deal of punning on the name.\u00a0 Now, I understand why a musical with a name that is an adjective is a tempting target for this sort of thing, but this particular adjective is kind of tricky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar-gripery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}