{"id":179,"date":"2006-06-05T15:46:46","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T19:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/06\/05\/theatre-10\/"},"modified":"2006-06-06T20:12:53","modified_gmt":"2006-06-07T00:12:53","slug":"theatre-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/06\/05\/theatre-10\/","title":{"rendered":"theatre (10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/05\/22\/theatre\/\" \/>an episodically published poem<br \/>\nlink to <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/05\/22\/theatre\/\">beginning <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Listen<br \/>\nparticularly<br \/>\nif it is a one-hander<br \/>\none actor doing it all<\/p>\n<p>every show has sound<br \/>\nit may be offstage breakage<br \/>\nor footsteps<br \/>\nor a door slamming<!--more--><br \/>\nor a voice<br \/>\nor wind or rain or thunder<br \/>\nor trumpets<br \/>\nor a crowd<br \/>\nor a passing trumbril<br \/>\nor a wolf howling in the distance<br \/>\nor a cell door closing<br \/>\nor a memory approaching<br \/>\nor a forest fire<br \/>\nor the sound of woodsmen chopping down cherry trees<br \/>\nor a screen door slamming<br \/>\nor an army approaching<br \/>\nor pilgrims passing<br \/>\nor God coming<br \/>\nor the king<br \/>\nor the queen<br \/>\nor the secretary&#8217;s heels<br \/>\nor a soldier&#8217;s<br \/>\nor a zombie&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>it all comes down to<br \/>\nhow you are doing it,<br \/>\nhow long<br \/>\nhow loud<br \/>\nfrom what angle<\/p>\n<p>And you do it<br \/>\nso that it is part of the scene<br \/>\nwithout being noticed<br \/>\njust the way we don&#8217;t notice<br \/>\nthe sounds you make doing<br \/>\nhomework or reading or<br \/>\ncoming up the stairs.<\/p>\n<p>Unless<br \/>\nof course<br \/>\nyou are the living dead<\/p>\n<p>then we want to notice<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you hate it when that happens?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>an episodically published poem link to beginning Listen particularly if it is a one-hander one actor doing it all every show has sound it may be offstage breakage or footsteps or a door slamming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-poetry","category-serial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","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=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}