{"id":639,"date":"2009-09-28T00:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2009\/09\/once-nearly-was-mine.html"},"modified":"2010-10-12T20:20:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T00:20:56","slug":"once-nearly-was-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"Once Nearly Was Mine&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_QwJtFy8OUME\/SsBAbKP67qI\/AAAAAAAAAQA\/qvrKsn8iSXU\/s1600-h\/pennsylvania+ave..jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386375989686890146\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 295px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_QwJtFy8OUME\/SsBAbKP67qI\/AAAAAAAAAQA\/qvrKsn8iSXU\/s400\/pennsylvania+ave..jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOh dear readers, how I wanted this for my collection of memorabilia. An original window card of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">1600 Pennsylvania Avenue <\/span>(not a reprint) that I stumbled upon by accident on E-bay a couple of days ago. The show closed in 1976 after a 7 performance run at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, and is a piece that has been well-documented on this site. (My obsession with it is a very well known item of interest). I put in the entry bid at $49.99 and set a small buffer in case I was outbid. Well, I was this evening. And now, the going rate for this piece of musical theatre history is now $500.00, a sum much more than my piggy bank can afford. So we&#8217;ll hold out until next time&#8230;if there <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">is <\/span>a next time. I&#8217;m not Don Pardo and you&#8217;ve not been &#8220;Spanning the World.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh dear readers, how I wanted this for my collection of memorabilia. An original window card of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (not a reprint) that I stumbled upon by accident on E-bay a couple of days ago. The show closed in 1976 after a 7 performance run at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, and is a piece &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=639\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Once Nearly Was Mine&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1614,1653,2356],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1600-pennsylvania-avenue","tag-a-white-house-cantata","tag-e-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","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=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2581,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/2581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}