{"id":405,"date":"2013-03-03T02:58:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T09:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/samanthasays\/?p=408"},"modified":"2013-03-03T02:58:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T09:58:47","slug":"phantom-of-the-puccini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/2013\/03\/03\/phantom-of-the-puccini\/","title":{"rendered":"Phantom of the Puccini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I was going for a clever pun, but it didn&#8217;t really work out that way. What I&#8217;m trying to say is that I think I&#8217;ve come up with a topic for my history paper! Apparently the song &#8220;The Music of the Night&#8221; from Andrew Lloyd Weber&#8217;s <i>Phantom of the Opera<\/i> was accused of plagiarizing an opera by Puccini written in 1910, and his estate tried to sue for it but it didn&#8217;t go through. But, I thought it would be interesting to look into the similarities between the two pieces and in doing that look at similarities between musicals and opera.<\/p>\n<p>This is, of course, if my prof approves the topic. I&#8217;m hoping that he does. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was going for a clever pun, but it didn&rsquo;t really work out that way. What I&rsquo;m trying to say is that I think I&rsquo;ve come up with a topic for my history paper! Apparently the song &ldquo;The Music &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/samanthasays\/2013\/03\/03\/phantom-of-the-puccini\/\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/2013\/03\/03\/phantom-of-the-puccini\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[747,709,454389,458,1256,364,329876,1230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-history","category-idea","category-music","category-paper","category-research","category-school-of-music","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}