{"id":587,"date":"2019-05-20T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T06:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/?p=587"},"modified":"2019-05-24T12:38:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T12:38:17","slug":"american-prize-finalist-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/20\/american-prize-finalist-2\/","title":{"rendered":"American Prize Finalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver is Finalist for the American Prize in \u00a0Chamber Music Composition!\u00a0The recognition is for Oliver&#8217;s deeply personal\u00a0<em>Love Letters<\/em>,\u00a0written 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><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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver is Finalist for the American Prize in \u00a0Chamber Music Composition!\u00a0The recognition is for Oliver&#8217;s deeply personal\u00a0Love Letters,\u00a0written 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 [&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-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}