{"id":626,"date":"2011-08-22T18:28:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T22:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scripts.mit.edu\/~zong\/wpress\/?p=626"},"modified":"2012-01-13T15:50:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T20:50:42","slug":"neil-simon-plays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/?p=626","title":{"rendered":"Neil Simon plays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished listening to some classical Neil Simon plays. I don&#8217;t like the Suites very much, though they have their moments. Simon is best at his craft when he writes personal comedies.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite plays are:<\/p>\n<p>Brighton Beach Memoirs<br \/>\nBiloxi Blues<br \/>\nBarefoot in the Park<br \/>\nBroadway Bound<\/p>\n<p>Some other good but less believable ones:<\/p>\n<p>Chapter Two<br \/>\nLost in Yonkers<br \/>\nThe Odd Couple<br \/>\nPrisoner of Second Avenue<\/p>\n<p>The balance are more slapstick and aren&#8217;t so good:<\/p>\n<p>Plaza Suite<br \/>\nCalifornia Suite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished listening to some classical Neil Simon plays. I don&#8217;t like the Suites very much, though they have their moments. Simon is best at his craft when he writes personal comedies. My favorite plays are: Brighton Beach Memoirs Biloxi Blues Barefoot in the Park Broadway Bound Some other good but less believable ones: Chapter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2427,2422,2425,2435,2428,2434],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blues","tag-craft","tag-neil-simon","tag-odd","tag-park","tag-suite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}