{"id":553,"date":"2019-01-23T23:53:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T23:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/?p=553"},"modified":"2019-01-24T00:05:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T00:05:08","slug":"american-prize-semi-finalist-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/23\/american-prize-semi-finalist-2\/","title":{"rendered":"American Prize Semi-Finalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just announced: Oliver is Semi-Finalist for the American Prize in \u00a0Chamber Music Composition. The recognition is for <em>Love Letters<\/em>, a piece on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/olivercaplan.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cfad2f0dbb02375eb982a5b28&amp;id=07842c73ab&amp;e=9d0ff67229\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You Are Not Alone<\/a>, his\u00a0new album with Juventas.<\/p>\n<p><em>Love Letters\u00a0<\/em>was written in 2015 for the composer\u2019s marriage to Landscape Architect Chris Beagan. \u201cThis piece is an affirmation of love and equality,\u201d Oliver\u00a0shares. \u201cChris and I grew up in a time when two men could not marry. When we tied the knot, our marriage was only recognized in some parts of our country.\u201d Three weeks after their wedding, the Supreme Court issued the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, which recognized the fundamental right of same-sex couples to marry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/322310247&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just announced: Oliver is Semi-Finalist for the American Prize in \u00a0Chamber Music Composition. The recognition is for Love Letters, a piece on\u00a0You Are Not Alone, his\u00a0new album with Juventas. Love Letters\u00a0was written in 2015 for the composer\u2019s marriage to Landscape Architect Chris Beagan. \u201cThis piece is an affirmation of love and equality,\u201d Oliver\u00a0shares. \u201cChris and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}