{"id":2716,"date":"2020-04-25T11:09:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T15:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2020\/04\/its-the-old-lesson\/"},"modified":"2020-04-25T11:09:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T15:09:40","slug":"its-the-old-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2020\/04\/its-the-old-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s The Old Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate his 90th birthday, the NY TIMES re-published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/16\/t-magazine\/lin-manuel-miranda-stephen-sondheim.html?action=click&amp;module=Well&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;section=T%20Magazine\">2017 interview<\/a> of lyricist Stephen Sondheim by playwright Lin Manuel Miranda, which included this bit of creative advice:<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\"><em><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Sondheim<\/strong>: &#8230;you know, it\u2019s the old lesson, you\u2019ve got to work on something dangerous. You have to work on something that makes you uncertain. Something that makes you doubt yourself.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside aria-label=\"companion column\" class=\"css-ew4tgv\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\"><em><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Miranda<\/strong>: Talk a bit about that danger and uncertainty.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\"><em><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Sondheim<\/strong>: Well, because it stimulates you to do things you haven\u2019t done before. The whole thing is if you know where you\u2019re going, you\u2019ve gone, as the poet says. And that\u2019s death.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate his 90th birthday, the NY TIMES re-published a 2017 interview of lyricist Stephen Sondheim by playwright Lin Manuel Miranda, which included this bit of creative advice: Sondheim: &#8230;you know, it\u2019s the old lesson, you\u2019ve got to work on something dangerous. You have to work on something that makes you uncertain. Something that makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}