{"id":661,"date":"2004-10-29T17:30:34","date_gmt":"2004-10-29T22:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2004\/10\/29\/the-inspiration-was-pretzel-nuggets\/"},"modified":"2004-10-29T17:30:34","modified_gmt":"2004-10-29T22:30:34","slug":"the-inspiration-was-pretzel-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2004\/10\/29\/the-inspiration-was-pretzel-nuggets\/","title":{"rendered":"The inspiration was pretzel nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just had a great idea:  if I ever direct a play again, which I won&#8217;t, because I&#8217;m a bad director, I wouldn&#8217;t have my actors warm up by doing exaggerated facial stretches and silly consonant sequences.  (If you have a theatrical background you know what I&#8217;m talking about; if you don&#8217;t, rest assured that this is typically the case.)  Instead, I would have them run through lines they hadn&#8217;t quite memorized anyway <i>with grapes in their mouths.<\/i>  Or marshmallows, but grapes would be better for their vocal cords.  See, it would force them to do all that stretching anyway to get around the grapes, and they&#8217;d be working on lines, and it&#8217;d be delicious!  All at the same time!<\/p>\n<p>Maybe this is one of those ideas that turn out not to be so great later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just had a great idea: if I ever direct a play again, which I won&#8217;t, because I&#8217;m a bad director, I wouldn&#8217;t have my actors warm up by doing exaggerated facial stretches and silly consonant sequences. (If you have a theatrical background you know what I&#8217;m talking about; if you don&#8217;t, rest assured that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drama","category-mild-lunacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}