{"id":1771,"date":"2006-12-21T23:41:34","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T23:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2006-12-21T23:41:34","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T23:41:34","slug":"the-corruption-of-the-merchant-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1771","title":{"rendered":"The corruption of the merchant class&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; as recorded by Alexander Ostrovsky in Moscow in 1849 and performed today by the <a href = \"http:\/\/mylondonyourlondon.com\/?p=127\">Arcola Theatre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The censor complained &#8220;All the characters in the play &#8211; the merchant, his daughter, the lawyer, the clerk and the matchmaker &#8211; are first-rate villains. The dialogue is filthy. The entire play is an insult to the Russian merchant class.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And at its best, a lot of fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; as recorded by Alexander Ostrovsky in Moscow in 1849 and performed today by the Arcola Theatre. The censor complained &#8220;All the characters in the play &#8211; the merchant, his daughter, the lawyer, the clerk and the matchmaker &#8211; are first-rate villains. The dialogue is filthy. The entire play is an insult to the Russian [&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-1771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theatre","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}