{"id":10757,"date":"2018-04-23T12:59:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T16:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=10757"},"modified":"2020-05-30T16:16:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T20:16:28","slug":"mr-kralers-distress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/10757","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Kraler\u2019s Distress"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI don\u2019t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Anne Frank<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It has been a distinct pleasure to perform in the company of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_1672.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">some accomplished dramatic artists<\/a>. I felt like a novice throughout our local production of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/10685\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Diary of Anne Frank<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em> There were times when the angst of my character, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/MrKralerDistress.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Kraler<\/a>, spilled over into my off-stage being. So, naturally, I fell back on my own art and made a collage miniature as a creative catharsis. After a bit of sadness when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_1632.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Secret Annex set<\/a> was struck, I found myself eager to spend more time in the studio.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Dixon_MrKralerDistress.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Dixon_MrKralerDistress.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. Kraler\u2019s Distress ~ collage miniature by John Andrew Dixon ~ Danville, Kentucky\" title=\"Mr. Kraler\u2019s Distress ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"350\" height=\"404\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Dixon_MrKralerDistress.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Dixon_MrKralerDistress-300x346.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 423px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Mr. Kraler\u2019s Distress<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\n8.25 x 9.375 inches<br \/>\ncollection of the artist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.\u201d \u2014 Anne Frank &nbsp; It has been a distinct pleasure to perform in the company of some accomplished dramatic artists. I felt like a novice throughout our local production of The Diary of Anne Frank. There were times when the angst [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,1,244,150,18,282],"tags":[315,287,90,308,286,313,284,285,283,314],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10757"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14019,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10757\/revisions\/14019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}