{"id":312,"date":"2007-05-21T12:20:46","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T12:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2007\/05\/21\/the-critic\/"},"modified":"2007-05-21T12:20:46","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T12:20:46","slug":"the-critic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2007\/05\/21\/the-critic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Critic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you been to the America&#8217;s Pavilion at Epcot? It&#8217;s pretty cool. There&#8217;s an acapella singing group there called the Voices of Liberty. Everybody sits on the floor under a big domed ceiling, and the Voices of Liberty do their performance right in the middle. The acoustics are great, and the performers do a fantastic job of getting the crowd involved.<\/p>\n<p>We arrived a little early the other day, having gone straight there from the Japanese drum show, so we had the best seats in the house &#8211; on the floor as close to the singers as possible.<\/p>\n<p>I was sitting Indian style with the 2 year old in my lap, and the 4 year old leaning against my knees. After the first song ended, the two year old leaned over to whisper to me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I like the girls better,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>I nodded. That was okay by me. I liked them better too. Halfway through the next song, however, he took it up a notch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wish the boys would stop singing,&#8221; he whispered.<\/p>\n<p>Sheesh. I wonder what he whispers about my singing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you been to the America&#8217;s Pavilion at Epcot? It&#8217;s pretty cool. There&#8217;s an acapella singing group there called the Voices of Liberty. Everybody sits on the floor under a big domed ceiling, and the Voices of Liberty do their performance right in the middle. The acoustics are great, and the performers do a fantastic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[123,122,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddytales-cute","category-daddytales-n","category-daddytales-funny"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DpYi-52","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}