{"id":165,"date":"2006-05-23T23:32:21","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T03:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/05\/23\/frustrations-of-a-blogging-poet\/"},"modified":"2006-05-24T23:16:20","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T03:16:20","slug":"frustrations-of-a-blogging-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/05\/23\/frustrations-of-a-blogging-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"theatre (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>an episodically published poem<br \/>\nlink to <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/05\/22\/theatre\/\">beginning <\/a> | next<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>the room brimmed with wonders<br \/>\ngleaming photos of buildings<br \/>\nstylized models in hardboard<br \/>\nfutures of the past<!--more--><br \/>\nfutures of the future<br \/>\nblueprints pinned to corkboards<br \/>\nand here in front of us<br \/>\nfuture of the future<br \/>\nthe great globe of to-come<br \/>\nthe theatre our home<\/p>\n<p>The architect smoked a pipe<br \/>\nthis is your opportunity<\/p>\n<p>we knew it was set in budget<br \/>\nin numbers in concepts<br \/>\nchange the stage level<br \/>\nenlarge the dressing rooms<br \/>\nraise the front seating<br \/>\nsprung softwood floors more lighting<br \/>\nrake the seating panel velours<br \/>\nbackstage intercoms remote<br \/>\ninstruments technical specs<br \/>\nall this to create a place<br \/>\nfor artists to speak sing and dance<br \/>\nfor other people to be moved<\/p>\n<p>a slope down a hillside<br \/>\nan outdoor courtyard<br \/>\na church sanctuary<br \/>\na platform in an inn<br \/>\na room in a palace<br \/>\na room in an inn<br \/>\na room in a warehouse<br \/>\na converted factory<br \/>\na tent in a field<br \/>\na special construct<br \/>\nwe could convert this barn<\/p>\n<p>all the world&#8217;s a stage<br \/>\neach in his own way sees<br \/>\nwhat a theatre should be<br \/>\njust give me a dark place<br \/>\nwith good sightlines<br \/>\nsome lighting<br \/>\nand I&#8217;ll give you a play<br \/>\nthat will knock your socks off<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(To be continued)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>an episodically published poem link to beginning | next the room brimmed with wonders gleaming photos of buildings stylized models in hardboard futures of the past<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}