{"id":186,"date":"2006-06-12T23:55:52","date_gmt":"2006-06-13T03:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/06\/12\/theatre-16\/"},"modified":"2007-03-07T09:58:55","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T14:58:55","slug":"theatre-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/06\/12\/theatre-16\/","title":{"rendered":"theatre (16)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes?I&#8217;d like to return this toaster.<\/p>\n<p>Please fill out this form in triplicate.<\/p>\n<p>May I borrow a pen?<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have a pen?<\/p>\n<p>Sorry.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a spare pen.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stop for a moment, Chris, Mary.<br \/>\nNow, tell me, anyone:<br \/>\nWho has the power?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Chris.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Why?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He&#8217;s making Mary beg for everything;<br \/>\nhe&#8217;s a monster. I&#8217;ve run into clerks like him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Good. So, Chris has the power.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going to give Chris this<br \/>\nchalkbrush to hold,<br \/>\nsignifying that he has the power.<br \/>\nIf that changes, Mary gets the chalkbrush<br \/>\nContinue.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have a spare pen?<br \/>\nWhat kind of store is this?<br \/>\nI want to speak to the manager.<\/p>\n<p>You win: here&#8217;s a pen.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mary should get the chalkbrush<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That&#8217;s right. Chris, give it over.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You fill out the form for me,<br \/>\nand I&#8217;ll tell you what to write.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks you, Ma&#8217;am:<br \/>\nIf you had made a fuss,<br \/>\nI would have lost my job.<\/p>\n<p>Oh?<\/p>\n<p>I have a wife and three kids at home<br \/>\nMy youngest, Billy, has leukemia<br \/>\nand my wife is illiterate<\/p>\n<p>My goodness. You poor man!<br \/>\n<em>Chris gets the brush.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Correct. That&#8217;s the power game<br \/>\nIt can go on, switching the power often.<br \/>\nActors play it in just about every scene.<br \/>\nRemember it.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes?I&#8217;d like to return this toaster. Please fill out this form in triplicate. May I borrow a pen? You don&#8217;t have a pen? Sorry. I don&#8217;t have a spare pen. Stop for a moment, Chris, Mary. Now, tell me, anyone: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/06\/12\/theatre-16\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-serial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","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=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}