{"id":3132,"date":"2013-01-24T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T22:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/?p=3132"},"modified":"2013-02-01T17:26:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T06:26:37","slug":"five-books-five-songs-doing-the-lambeth-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/five-books-five-songs-doing-the-lambeth-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Books, Five Songs: Doing the Lambeth Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"

“We play a different way
\nNot like you, but a bit more gay . . .”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Poor Sophie and her family have a lot to contend with in The FitzOsbornes in Exile<\/em><\/a>, what with governesses trying to turn them into young ladies and aunts trying to marry them off to vile bachelors and assassins trying to shoot them. It’s a good thing they have Julia to distract them from their worries. For instance, she tells the FitzOsbornes all about Me and My Girl<\/em>, which she has just seen in the West End, and then she teaches them her favourite song and dance from the show. Here’s a clip<\/a> from a more recent Broadway production, starring Robert Lindsay as Bill, the Cockney barrow boy who shows the Mayfair toffs how to do the Lambeth Walk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More in Five Books, Five Songs<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> The Rage of Sheep<\/em><\/a> – Hester’s Request<\/a>
\n2.<\/strong> A Brief History of Montmaray<\/em><\/a> – The Sea Is Writhing Now<\/a>
\n3.<\/strong> The FitzOsbornes in Exile<\/em><\/a> – Doing The Lambeth Walk
\n4.<\/strong> The FitzOsbornes at War<\/em><\/a> – We’ll Meet Again<\/a>
\n5.<\/strong> The Work-in-Progress – Through The Large Four-Chambered Heart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“We play a different way Not like you, but a bit more gay . . .” Poor Sophie and her family have a lot to contend with in The FitzOsbornes in Exile, what with governesses trying to turn them into young ladies and aunts trying to marry them off to vile bachelors and assassins trying … Continue reading Five Books, Five Songs: Doing the Lambeth Walk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1930s","category-the-montmaray-journals","category-this-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3132"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3145,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions\/3145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}