{"id":5185,"date":"2015-05-03T18:57:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T22:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=5185"},"modified":"2015-06-16T19:24:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T23:24:37","slug":"5185","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/5185","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ommatidia.org\/2006\/01\/26\/wyoming\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>WYOMING<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>by Brendan Adkins<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Leonard and I were in Wyoming just long enough to stop for gas off the Laramie exit.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Vagina Monologues<\/em> was my second college play, and <em>The Laramie Project<\/em> the second-to-last. They were the only times that I felt meaningful, in drama, loud and bright and kicking teeth. Every acting student in this decade has had those feelings about those plays. That doesn\u2019t reduce their significance.<\/p>\n<p>Laramie was an offhand pilgrimage, a place to throw the ashes of a twelve-year dream. I was done with acting. I\u2019d begun to write.<\/p>\n<p>Leaving, I bought a local newspaper: the Boomerang.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 26px; margin-bottom: 22px; color: gray; padding-left: 0px;\" align=\"left\">WYOMING is licensed under a<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\" target=\"_blank\">Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Dixon_TheBoomerang.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Dixon_TheBoomerang.jpg\" title=\"The Boomerang ~ J A Dixon\" alt=\"The Boomerang ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"333\" height=\"412\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Dixon_TheBoomerang.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Dixon_TheBoomerang-300x371.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 445px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>The Boomerang<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon, 4 x 5 inches<br \/>\ninspired by <em>WYOMING<\/em><br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ommatidia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ommatidia<\/a>, Thursday, January 26, 2006)<br \/>\ncollection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/category\/artists_other\/b-c-adkins\" target=\"_blank\">B C Adkins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WYOMING by Brendan Adkins Leonard and I were in Wyoming just long enough to stop for gas off the Laramie exit. The Vagina Monologues was my second college play, and The Laramie Project the second-to-last. They were the only times that I felt meaningful, in drama, loud and bright and kicking teeth. Every acting student [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,119,13,18,54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185"}],"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=5185"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5200,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185\/revisions\/5200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}