{"id":2104,"date":"2022-10-06T11:06:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T18:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2022-10-06T11:06:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T18:06:09","slug":"in-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2022\/10\/06\/in-character\/","title":{"rendered":"In Character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ahmad-odeh-TK_WT3dl2tw-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ahmad-odeh-TK_WT3dl2tw-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ahmad-odeh-TK_WT3dl2tw-unsplash.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ahmad-odeh-TK_WT3dl2tw-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>In Character<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">It\u2019s good to<br \/>\nstay in character,<br \/>\nfor the sake of<br \/>\nthe Tragicomedramedy<br \/>\nwe all begged<br \/>\nThe Director to<br \/>\nlet us play in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">It\u2019s even fun to<br \/>\n\u201close your Self<br \/>\nin the part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">We love the<br \/>\nauthenticity of<br \/>\nyour tears,<br \/>\nyour fears,<br \/>\nyour leers,<br \/>\nyour cheers<br \/>\nwhen you<br \/>\nmake us feel<br \/>\nwhat you feel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">But help me<br \/>\nremember,<br \/>\nand I\u2019ll help<br \/>\nyou:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">We\u2019re drama kids,<br \/>\nfrom a family<br \/>\nthat loves<br \/>\neach other<br \/>\nmore than<br \/>\nanything,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">even more than<br \/>\nwe love<br \/>\nbeing characters,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">so don\u2019t let me<br \/>\nforget that<br \/>\nbeing a lazy,<br \/>\nsometimes<br \/>\noffputting,<br \/>\nputter-offer<br \/>\nis just a part<br \/>\nI\u2019m playing,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">and I won\u2019t let you<br \/>\nforget you\u2019re<br \/>\neven more<br \/>\nbeautiful<br \/>\nthan that<br \/>\ntemptress<br \/>\ngetting better<br \/>\nwith every<br \/>\nperformance,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">and, above all,<br \/>\nwe\u2019ll remember<br \/>\nthat we\u2019re<br \/>\nso much more than<br \/>\nthe sum of<br \/>\nour parts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Ahmad Odeh; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In Character It\u2019s good to stay in character, for the sake of the Tragicomedramedy we all begged The Director to let us play in. It\u2019s even fun to \u201close your Self in the part.\u201d We love the authenticity of your tears, your fears, your leers, your cheers when you make us feel what you [&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-2104","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\/2104","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=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2106,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions\/2106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}