{"id":1476,"date":"2015-01-05T19:17:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T00:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2015-05-05T20:07:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T00:07:37","slug":"vast-activities-matthews-minstrels-and-merely-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/?p=1476","title":{"rendered":"VAST Activities: Matthew&#8217;s Minstrels and Merely Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, November 7th, VAST hosted special guests from Vassar. Acappella group Matthew&#8217;s Minstrels and drama group Merely Players worked with and performed for VAST Scholars.<\/p>\n<p>The Merely Players ran workshops with small groups of scholars, which included warm-up exercises, improvisation, and a healthy dose of Shakespearian insults.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew&#8217;s Minstrels blew us away with their a cappella covers of classic pop songs. They even performed one song at PMS&#8217;s Fall Festival!<\/p>\n<p>VAST would like to extend a huge THANK YOU to Merely Players and Matthew&#8217;s Minstrels! We hope to see you all again soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, November 7th, VAST hosted special guests from Vassar. Acappella group Matthew&#8217;s Minstrels and drama group Merely Players worked with and performed for VAST Scholars. The Merely Players ran workshops with small groups of scholars, which included warm-up exercises, improvisation, and a healthy dose of Shakespearian insults. Matthew&#8217;s Minstrels blew us away with their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1650,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions\/1650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}