{"id":1256,"date":"2021-11-01T16:22:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T23:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2023-01-10T09:32:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T17:32:15","slug":"central-casting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2021\/11\/01\/central-casting\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Casting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-01-at-3.30.00-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-01-at-3.30.00-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-01-at-3.30.00-PM.png 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-01-at-3.30.00-PM-300x216.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Central Casting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Walking<br \/>\nThe Dog,<br \/>\nhaving my<br \/>\nusual one-sided<br \/>\nconversation<br \/>\nwith whoever<br \/>\nis producing<br \/>\nthis piece of<br \/>\ncosmological<br \/>\ntheater.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I\u2019m desperate<br \/>\nfor notes<br \/>\nfrom the<br \/>\nDirector.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">How am I doing?<br \/>\nI feel like<br \/>\na fraud,<br \/>\na failure,<br \/>\nlike I\u2019ve forgotten<br \/>\nall my lines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">As is often<br \/>\nthe case . . .<br \/>\nnothing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Until later,<br \/>\nwhen there\u2019s<br \/>\na whisper<br \/>\nand<br \/>\na comforting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u201cIf you\u2019re<br \/>\nlooking for<br \/>\na review,<br \/>\nthat will come<br \/>\nwhen the show<br \/>\nis over.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u201cFor now,<br \/>\nyou should<br \/>\nknow that<br \/>\nwe all<br \/>\nagree:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u201cFor playing<br \/>\nthe part<br \/>\nof You,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">&#8220;You have<br \/>\nbeen perfectly<br \/>\ncast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo from Austrian National Library; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Central Casting Walking The Dog, having my usual one-sided conversation with whoever is producing this piece of cosmological theater. I\u2019m desperate for notes from the Director. How am I doing? I feel like a fraud, a failure, like I\u2019ve forgotten all my lines. As is often the case . . . nothing. Until later, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2232,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions\/2232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}