{"id":7161,"date":"2025-06-29T10:36:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T15:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=7161"},"modified":"2025-06-29T10:36:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T15:36:23","slug":"alexander-hamilton-reviews-hamilton-wait-they-did-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/29\/alexander-hamilton-reviews-hamilton-wait-they-did-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Hamilton Reviews Hamilton: \u201cWait, they did what?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">March 19, 1796<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NEW YORK\u2013 Alexander Hamilton, Founding Father and one of the chief architects behind the Federalist Papers, responded to the Broadway musical about him and his life today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhat the fuck is this?\u201d Hamilton said. We at <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dealer<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will spare you the next few sentences, as we had to fill Mr. Hamilton in on two centuries of race, immigration, and gender progress. Suffice it to say, Hamilton was bewildered by the diversity of the cast and had some interesting things to say about it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once he got past that, he had some questions: \u201cWhy a musical? I\u2019m a serious historical figure, and you guys are just dancing around the stage rapping. Oh dear, please tell me you didn\u2019t include the affair\u2026 oh yes, yes you did.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAnd why is so much of it about the Schuylers? The musical is called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hamilton<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, for Christ\u2019s sake. If you\u2019re going to do whatever the hell this is, at least let it be about me! Why is King George in it? That tyrannical bastard, and you guys just have him sing about oppressing us. What\u2019s next? Did you guys bring Pol Pot in too?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When asked how he, a man who died in 1804, knew who Pol Pot was, Hamilton replied simply,\u00a0 \u201cWe all have our secrets,\u201d before winking and disappearing into the night.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhy a musical? I\u2019m a serious historical figure, and you guys are just dancing around the stage rapping. Oh dear, please tell me you didn\u2019t include the affair\u2026 oh yes, yes you did.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical-issue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7165,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161\/revisions\/7165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}