{"id":300,"date":"2008-11-04T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2008\/11\/its-a-great-day-for-america-folks.html"},"modified":"2008-11-04T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T13:30:00","slug":"its-a-great-day-for-america-folks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"&quot;It&#8217;s a Great Day for America, Folks&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So says Craig Ferguson in the introduction to his monologue every evening on &#8220;The Late, Late Show.&#8221; Today I am doing my civic duty and voting in our presidential election and I do hope that all of you are doing the same. After my parents and I hit up the polls, we will be venturing down to Manhattan for dinner and this evening&#8217;s performance of <em>South Pacific. <\/em>What could be more patriotic than that?<\/p>\n<p>Once again, I turn to a personal favorite for musical theatre support:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.putfile.com\/To-Make-Us-Proud---1600-Pennsylvania-AvenueA-White-House-Cantata\">&#8220;To Make Us Proud&#8221;<\/a> (Bernstein-Lerner)<br \/><em>1600 Pennsylvania Avenue <\/em>(cut out of town)\/<em>A White House Cantata <\/em>(finale)<\/p>\n<p>To burn with pride<br \/>And not with shame<br \/>Each time I hear<br \/>My country&#8217;s name<br \/>Not hide my head<br \/>When the flag goes by,<br \/>But feel I&#8217;m soaring<br \/>Where eagles fly:<br \/>Not walk away.<br \/>But stand and say:<br \/>I love this land!<br \/>It will prevail.<br \/>If love be strong<br \/>We will not fail<br \/>Let rage be fearless and<br \/>Faith be loud.<br \/>This land needs love.<br \/>To make us proud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So says Craig Ferguson in the introduction to his monologue every evening on &#8220;The Late, Late Show.&#8221; Today I am doing my civic duty and voting in our presidential election and I do hope that all of you are doing the same. After my parents and I hit up the polls, we will be venturing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=300\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&quot;It&#8217;s a Great Day for America, Folks&quot;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1614,1653,1916,1666],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-1600-pennsylvania-avenue","tag-a-white-house-cantata","tag-political","tag-south-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}