{"id":66134,"date":"2016-08-17T07:36:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T11:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=66134"},"modified":"2016-07-28T13:37:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T17:37:38","slug":"meet-murasaki-shikibu-performance-book-signing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=66134","title":{"rendered":"Meet Murasaki Shikibu Performance + Book Signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, August 17\u00a0 04:45pm<br \/>\nWOW Cafe Theater<br \/>\n59-61 E 4th St #4, NY, NY 10003<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/meetmurasakishikibu.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[66134]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66130\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/meetmurasakishikibu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The event is more than a millennium late, but Lady Murasaki Shikibu, the ancient Japanese author, makes up for lost time with stories of her life mixed with razor sharp wit and commentary on modern American culture. As the hapless bookstore manager tries to lead a formal discussion, Murasaki waxes poetic (and sometimes not-so-poetic) on her novel, her position serving the second Empress, and how things have changed over the years. As the evening continues, Murasaki must confront her artistic and personal agency, and cultural legacy.<\/p>\n<p>This production is co-produced by Rachel Christiansen and The Brewing Dept.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets and more information visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/meetmurasakishikibu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/meetmurasakishikibu.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, August 17\u00a0 04:45pm WOW Cafe Theater 59-61 E 4th St #4, NY, NY 10003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66138,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66134\/revisions\/66138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}