{"id":3954,"date":"2009-10-25T00:59:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T23:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=3954"},"modified":"2009-10-25T00:59:38","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T23:59:38","slug":"alan-cumming-i-bought-a-blue-car-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=3954","title":{"rendered":"Alan Cumming: I Bought a Blue Car Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SUNDAY 25<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3955\" title=\"alan cumming\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/alan-cumming.jpg\" alt=\"alan cumming\" width=\"450\" height=\"562\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scottish stage, television and film actor <strong><em>Alan Cumming<\/em><\/strong> is in new show <em>I Bought a Blue Car Today<\/em>, based on Cumming\u2019s experiences living in the United States for the past 10 years. He writes, \u201cThe title comes from the naturalization test I took to become a citizen of the U. S. of A. In the test, there is a bit where the man says a sentence and you have to write it down to prove your prowess in English. My sentence was \u2018I bought a blue car today,\u2019 which initially I thought was really sweet and child-like, but on closer examination I realized that it\u2019s all about consumerism and gas guzzling which rather brilliantly encapsulates America&#8217;s financial and energy crises in one fell swoop.\u201d The show features the music of Frank Sinatra, Dory Previn, Kander &amp; Ebb, Cyndi Lauper and more.<\/p>\n<p><em>Highline Ballroom<\/em>, 431 W 16th St bet Ninth and Tenth Aves, NYC, 212-414-5994, 8pm, $25, $35, $100, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alancumming.com\" target=\"_self\">www.alancumming.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUNDAY 25<\/p>\n<p>Scottish stage, television and film actor Alan Cumming is in new show I Bought a Blue Car Today, based on Cumming\u2019s experiences living in the United States for the past 10 years. He writes, \u201cThe title comes from the naturalization test I took to become a citizen of the U. S. of A. In [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}