{"id":696,"date":"2005-12-19T21:14:59","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T04:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=696"},"modified":"2012-05-09T11:47:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T18:47:51","slug":"once-upon-a-mattress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2005\/12\/once-upon-a-mattress\/","title":{"rendered":"_Once Upon a Mattress_"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a musical that started out Off-Broadway, then moved onto Broadway, and now has been on TV and will very soon be for sale on a DVD near you.<\/p>\n<p>I saw it this weekend on the &#8220;Wonderful World of Disney&#8221;. Carol Burnett, who starred as the princess in the orignal off broadway performance, got to be the evil mother in the TV version.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fairy tale story, the one about the Princess and the Pea. Tracy Ullman was the princess and the Pea played itself.<\/p>\n<p>I really liked this production. It has music, it has dancing. It has Carol Burnett and Tracy Ullman! I mean, really!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great DVD to get if you have kids. It&#8217;s the kind of story that works great for kids and has enough intelligence to play well for the adults who have to watch along.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;d buy the DVD, but then again I don&#8217;t have kids. If I did, I would get it for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a musical that started out Off-Broadway, then moved onto Broadway, and now has been on TV and will very soon be for sale on a DVD near you. I saw it this weekend on the &#8220;Wonderful World of Disney&#8221;. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2005\/12\/once-upon-a-mattress\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theater-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}