{"id":224,"date":"2018-09-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/science-fiction\/about-125\/"},"modified":"2018-09-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T00:00:00","slug":"about-125","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wsf\/about-125\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strange, Beautiful, and Now Tumblr-Friendly History of Sci-Fi Musicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/world-science-fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/312\/2019\/11\/safe-image-104.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>The Strange, Beautiful, and Now Tumblr-Friendly History of Sci-Fi Musicals Science fiction has a complicated history in musical theater. Much like the Academy Awards, which usually reward stories about \u201creal people\u201d over sci-fi and fantasy (with 2017&#8217;s Best Oscar win for The Shape of Water being a notable exception), musical theater audiences tend to scoff at space&#8230; I am not a fan of musicals, but this is a good piece for those who are.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Strange, Beautiful, and Now Tumblr-Friendly History of Sci-Fi Musicals Science fiction has a complicated history in musical theater. Much like the Academy Awards, which usually reward stories about \u201creal people\u201d over sci-fi and fantasy (with 2017&#8217;s Best Oscar win for The Shape of Water being a notable exception), musical theater audiences tend to scoff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wsf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}