{"id":160,"date":"2010-11-14T22:22:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T03:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2010\/11\/14\/%e2%80%9ci-wish%e2%80%9d-song\/"},"modified":"2010-11-14T22:22:11","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T03:22:11","slug":"%e2%80%9ci-wish%e2%80%9d-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2010\/11\/14\/%e2%80%9ci-wish%e2%80%9d-song\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Wish\u201d song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worklifedesign.com.au\/tag\/this-american-life\/\">This American Life | WORKLIFEDESIGN<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ira Glass, recounts how upon watching the 1937 Disney classic Snow White recently, he noticed how it has almost an operatic feeling with each of the main characters entering the story with a song. When he mentions this to his sister (who works for Disney) she informs him that what he\u2019s seeing is the \u201cI Wish\u201d song in action. It\u2019s a common storytelling technique that\u2019s used in musicals where the character declares exactly what they want in that first song.<\/p>\n<p>As Ira lists through all the musicals (classic and contemporary) that have I Wish Songs, I\u2019m gobsmacked to hear how common it is. Think, \u201cSomewhere Over the Rainbow\u201d starts off The Wizard of Oz, or, the Britney Spears\u2019 film Crossroads which begins with her singing Madonna\u2019s \u201cOpen Your Heart\u201d. The Little Mermaid. Fiddler on the Roof. Funny Girl. All begin with the main character\u2019s I Wish song.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This American Life | WORKLIFEDESIGN Ira Glass, recounts how upon watching the 1937 Disney classic Snow White recently, he noticed how it has almost an operatic feeling with each of the main characters entering the story with a song. When he mentions this to his sister (who works for Disney) she informs him that what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}