{"id":188489,"date":"2010-09-17T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/17\/people-with-way-too-much-free-time-3\/"},"modified":"2010-09-17T21:46:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T02:46:00","slug":"people-with-way-too-much-free-time-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/17\/people-with-way-too-much-free-time-3\/","title":{"rendered":"People With Way Too Much Free Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lostrepublic.us\/Graphics\/DoubleFacePalm.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"375\" \/>The Terran Research Ensemble, who are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2010\/09\/10\/the_first_all_klingon_opera_on_earth\/\">putting on an Opera in Klingon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">On Friday in The Hague, Netherlands, the Terran Research Ensemble raised the curtain on &#8220;U,&#8221; the first Earth opera performed entirely in Klingon. &#8220;U&#8221; is the Klingon word for &#8220;universe&#8221; or &#8220;universal,&#8221; and the opera tells the story of Kahless the Unforgettable, said to be the first Klingon emperor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">&#8220;Klingon are known as passionate opera lovers but at the same time very little was known about Klingon opera here so as far as I was concerned that was a very interesting challenge to try and make an authentic, or as authentic, something out of that as possible,&#8221; U co-creator Floris Schonfeld told Reuters and The BBC.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I will say that is only the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> most absurd juxtaposition of art and language, after the effort by South Africa in the Apartheid days to translate Shakespeare into Afrikaans:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Hamlet:<\/span> Mein Papa der schpook!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Terran Research Ensemble, who are putting on an Opera in Klingon: On Friday in The Hague, Netherlands, the Terran Research Ensemble raised the curtain on &#8220;U,&#8221; the first Earth opera performed entirely in Klingon. &#8220;U&#8221; is the Klingon word for &#8220;universe&#8221; or &#8220;universal,&#8221; and the opera tells the story of Kahless the Unforgettable, said &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1167,1064,1137,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-media","category-music","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}