{"id":3699,"date":"2014-03-03T17:23:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T17:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/events\/?p=3699"},"modified":"2014-03-03T17:23:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T17:23:32","slug":"the-great-society-oregon-shakespeare-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/events\/the-great-society-oregon-shakespeare-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Society, Oregon Shakespeare Fest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a title=\"Oregon Shakespeare Festival\" href=\"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/events\/oregon-shakespeare-festival\/\">Oregon Shakespeare Festival<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">July 23 &#8211; November 1, 2014 <\/span><\/h2>\n<div>By Robert Schenkkan<br \/>\nDirected by Bill Rauch<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">[button url=&#8221;http:\/\/www.osfashland.org\/experience-osf\/current-season\/buy-tickets.aspx&#8221; target=&#8221;blank&#8221;]Buy Tickets[\/button]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div>The tumultuous beginning of Lyndon Johnson\u2019s presidency that Robert Schenkkan presented in &#8220;All the Way&#8221; (2012) continues in part two, &#8220;The Great Society.&#8221; In the years from 1965 to 1968, LBJ struggles to fight a \u201cwar on poverty\u201d even as his war in Vietnam spins out of control. Besieged by political opponents, Johnson marshals all his political wiles to try to pass some of the most important social programs in U.S. history, while the country descends into chaos over the war and backlash against civil rights. This American Revolutions\u2013developed world premiere is an unflinching examination of the morality of power.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oregon Shakespeare Festival July 23 &#8211; November 1, 2014 By Robert Schenkkan Directed by Bill Rauch [button url=&#8221;http:\/\/www.osfashland.org\/experience-osf\/current-season\/buy-tickets.aspx&#8221; target=&#8221;blank&#8221;]Buy Tickets[\/button]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-osf","category-us-northwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3715,"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699\/revisions\/3715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}