{"id":77493,"date":"2016-08-15T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=77493"},"modified":"2016-08-09T16:43:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T15:43:13","slug":"musicians-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/08\/musicians-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Musicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Zanders, the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic, led an audience of 1000 at a conference where he spoke, to sing &#8220;happy birthday to you&#8221; for one of the participants.\u00a0 Afterwards he told the crowd, &#8220;If you want to put in your resume that you sang under the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic, that&#8217;s OK.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*******************<\/p>\n<p>Arturo Toscanini shouted at a cellist who had played a wrong note, &#8220;You are fired!&#8221; As he packed up his instrument for the last time and left, he turned around at the door and mumbled, &#8220;Son of a bitch!&#8221;\u00a0 Toscanini shouted, &#8220;It&#8217;s too late to apologize!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>    Ben Zanders, the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic, led an audience of 1000 at a conference&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joke-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}