{"id":405,"date":"2009-02-17T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2009\/02\/something-you-dont-see-everyday.html"},"modified":"2009-02-17T05:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T09:02:00","slug":"something-you-dont-see-everyday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Something you don&#8217;t see everyday&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s Ethel Merman and Susan Watson performing &#8220;Mutual Admiration Society&#8221; from the former&#8217;s musical <em>Happy Hunting<\/em> on the 1963 sitcom pilot episode of <em>Maggie Brown. <\/em>The series, about a widow trying to raise her daughter while running a nightclub next to a Marine Corps base was never sold. Here&#8217;s a taste of what the show was like:<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lbdSnVOc9ew&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lbdSnVOc9ew&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s Ethel Merman and Susan Watson performing &#8220;Mutual Admiration Society&#8221; from the former&#8217;s musical Happy Hunting on the 1963 sitcom pilot episode of Maggie Brown. The series, about a widow trying to raise her daughter while running a nightclub next to a Marine Corps base was never sold. Here&#8217;s a taste of what the show &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=405\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Something you don&#8217;t see everyday&#8230;<\/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":[1717,2088,2089],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-ethel-merman","tag-susan-watson","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","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=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}