{"id":14190,"date":"2013-07-31T07:58:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T12:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=14190"},"modified":"2013-07-31T08:12:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T13:12:03","slug":"good-news-2013-is-lucky-number-for-southern-ontario-music-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/07\/31\/good-news-2013-is-lucky-number-for-southern-ontario-music-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Good news: 2013 is lucky number for southern Ontario music festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14191\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14191\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/07\/opening.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14191\" alt=\"Opening fireworks at Stratford Summer Music\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/07\/opening.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/07\/opening.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/07\/opening-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opening fireworks at Stratford Summer Music.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Word of mouth has it that the summer of 2013 will be a better-than-average vintage for summer classical music festival attendance in southern Ontario.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Toronto Summer Music Festival artistic director Douglas McNabney told me last night that, with four days to go, the 8th annual three-week affair has sold 25 per cent more tickets than in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the first 10 days of its six-week run, Stratford Summer Music artistic producer John Miller says that the festival has already met 80 per cent of its ticket goals.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Christopher Blake of Music Niagara reports that this will be the festival&#8217;s best year yet for attendance and ticket sales.<\/p>\n<p>This summer&#8217;s weather may be giving people little to cheer about, but music is.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word of mouth has it that the summer of 2013 will be a better-than-average vintage for summer classical music festival attendance in southern Ontario.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,36,39,59],"tags":[6451,3778,6488,3780,3691,3779,6474],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/07\/opening.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-3GS","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14190"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14195,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14190\/revisions\/14195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14190"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}