{"id":5229,"date":"2016-07-13T12:03:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T16:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5229"},"modified":"2016-07-14T04:27:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T08:27:40","slug":"virginia-rich-barnett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5229","title":{"rendered":"VIRGINIA RICH BARNETT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t go on Facebook every day and I didn&#8217;t know she had died July 9.<\/p>\n<p>She was an unusually stimulating woman to talk to !<\/p>\n<p>Had a memorable lunch with the Barnetts when they were in town several years ago&#8211;then took (walking from Times Square part of the way) those two incredibly vigorous over-75s to Lincoln Center and watched some old NYCB tapes. Then had dinner with Wilde and the two of them when Barnett presented her with the Dance Magazine award a few months later in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia always said important, interesting things, forcefully and charmingly expressed. . . unfortunately, we won&#8217;t get to do that interview for Ballet Review that we talked about.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m so glad she&#8217;s quoted in Wilde Times! Just an extraordinary person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t go on Facebook every day and I didn&#8217;t know she had died July 9. She was an unusually stimulating woman to talk to ! Had a memorable lunch with the Barnetts when they were in town several years &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5229\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5229"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5238,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229\/revisions\/5238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}