{"id":113413,"date":"2016-02-18T07:48:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T07:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/18\/5-okieriete-onaodowan-hercules-mulliganjames\/"},"modified":"2016-02-18T07:48:06","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T07:48:06","slug":"5-okieriete-onaodowan-hercules-mulliganjames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/18\/5-okieriete-onaodowan-hercules-mulliganjames\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>5. Okieriete Onaodowan (Hercules Mulligan\/James Madison) jumped onstage to applaud a guy for filling in a front row seat.<br \/>\nWhen the announcer asked an audience member to sit in the empty seat (for the cameras, darling), a man from the middle of the theatre sprinted to the front. As the crowd burst into applause, Onaodowan jumped out from backstage to join in.<\/p>\n<p>\n6. After Hamilton won the Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album, Lin thrust the trophy into the air and said, \u201cTake pictures!\u201d<br \/>\nAnd in the most obvious (but still perfect) joke of the night, he yelled, \u201cYou\u2019re in the room where it happened, motherf\u2014ers!\u201d before handing the trophy to Anthony Ramos (John Laurens\/Philip Hamilton) and saying, \u201cNow take pictures of Anthony with it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n7. An emotional Anthony Ramos gave his mother some love.<br \/>\n\u201cYo, ma! This is for you!\u201d he yelled from the stage to where she beamed in the orchestra pit. \u201cFrom Bushwick to Broadway!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n8. The real Eliza Schuyler Hamilton was in attendance \u2014 sort of.<br \/>\nIn the song, \u201cWho Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story,\u201d Eliza sings about founding the first private orphanage in New York City. That organization, Graham Windham, still exists today, and its president (along with some students!) were in attendance. The Hamilton legacy lives on!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/article\/2016\/02\/15\/hamilton-grammys-behind-scenes\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Grammys 2016: 8 things you didn\u2019t see during Hamilton\u2019s performance <\/a>(Entertainment Weekly)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5. Okieriete Onaodowan (Hercules Mulligan\/James Madison) jumped onstage to applaud a guy for filling in a front row seat. When the announcer asked an audience member to sit in the empty seat (for the cameras, darling), a man from the middle of the theatre sprinted to the front. As the crowd burst into applause, Onaodowan &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/18\/5-okieriete-onaodowan-hercules-mulliganjames\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[240,1364,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}