{"id":20379,"date":"2026-03-08T16:04:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=20379"},"modified":"2026-03-08T16:35:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:35:31","slug":"overdue-appreciation-for-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/08\/overdue-appreciation-for-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"extremely overdue appreciation for hamilton (10 years behind)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>today i was reading about jonathan groff and forgot he was in <em>hamilton<\/em> so had to revisit a couple of his songs and then i couldn&#8217;t stop listening to the soundtrack because it is so genius, like just straight up plato-pre-cave definition of genius. lin-manuel miranda deserved every accolade, the pulitzer was so deserved, all the performers are incredible, the story is so complex and tragic. i was picturing being in the cast and performing at the first rehearsal and just how thrilling it must have been. you do <em>hamilton <\/em>and that&#8217;s enough for your whole life,<strong> you did it <\/strong>(it doesn&#8217;t work like that, but it should). watch this session of the cast performing at the white house and cry and think about how we had a black president that could present this and that we&#8217;ve come so far but not even far enough and seem to be sliding backwards? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hamilton at the White House\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_edbv-LPX9c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>today i was reading about jonathan groff and forgot he was in hamilton so had to revisit a couple of his songs and then i couldn&#8217;t stop listening to the soundtrack because it is so genius, like just straight up plato-pre-cave definition of genius. lin-manuel miranda deserved every accolade, the pulitzer was so deserved, all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-20379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20379"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20391,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20379\/revisions\/20391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}