{"id":4667,"date":"2014-07-05T00:25:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T07:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelophile.com\/?p=4667"},"modified":"2014-07-04T20:14:15","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T03:14:15","slug":"confounding-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/?p=4667","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Confounding&#8221; Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Intl-Printing-Museum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2515\" src=\"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Intl-Printing-Museum.jpg\" alt=\"Intl Printing Museum\" width=\"600\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Intl-Printing-Museum.jpg 600w, https:\/\/noelophile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Intl-Printing-Museum-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/noelophile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Intl-Printing-Museum-398x300.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Think the Independence Day festivities are over?\u00a0 Think again.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re cordially invited to spend this afternoon with Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.<\/p>\n<p>Carson&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.printmuseum.org\/\"> International Printing Museum<\/a> will be &#8220;celebrating the 4th on the 5th&#8221; today, with tours and a rare-book exhibit, a chance to print your own Declaration of Independence on an eighteenth-century printer, <em>and<\/em> a special lunch in Madam Brillon&#8217;s &#8220;French Garden de Liberte&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>But the highlight of the day is the show.<!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p>This afternoon at 3, there will be a performance of the original play &#8220;The Confounding Brothers&#8221;&#8211;with a lighthearted look at the Declaration of Independence, as told by Mssrs. Franklin,\u00a0 Adams and Jefferson.<\/p>\n<p>Actor and resident Ben Franklin Phil Soinski created the play, which is a popular annual event (according to the museum&#8217;s website, the two earlier shows, at 11 am and 1 pm, are already sold out&#8211;this is a special added performance!).<\/p>\n<p>Plan to bring the family to this &#8220;Meetin&#8217; of the Minds&#8221;, and have your mouth set for some colonial apple pie&#8211;lunch is included with admission!<\/p>\n<p><em>The International Printing Museum, in Carson, hosts its Independence Day Celebration today, Saturday, July 5, from 10 am to 4 pm.\u00a0\u00a0 Reservations are required for &#8220;The Confounding Brothers&#8221; special show in the Heritage Theater, and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.printmuseum.org\/special-events\/independance-day\/independence-day-tickets\/\"> tickets<\/a> are available online.\u00a0 The museum is located at 318 West Torrance Boulevard, east of Figueroa, in Carson.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think the Independence Day festivities are over?\u00a0 Think again. You&#8217;re cordially invited to spend this afternoon with Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. Carson&#8217;s International Printing Museum will be &#8220;celebrating the 4th on the 5th&#8221; today, with tours and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/?p=4667\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-the-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4667"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4680,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions\/4680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}