{"id":3061,"date":"2024-05-19T10:51:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T17:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=3061"},"modified":"2024-05-19T10:52:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T17:52:24","slug":"you-showed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2024\/05\/19\/you-showed-up\/","title":{"rendered":"You Showed Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/dea-tycor-a1dGfN3S_SM-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/dea-tycor-a1dGfN3S_SM-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3062\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/dea-tycor-a1dGfN3S_SM-unsplash.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/dea-tycor-a1dGfN3S_SM-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>You Showed Up<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">When the Casting Call<br \/>\nwent out,<br \/>\nYou Showed Up<br \/>\nand told The Director<br \/>\nYou wanted to Play<br \/>\nYou.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Which Lit<br \/>\nThe Director\u2019s Face<br \/>\nlike a Sunrise<br \/>\nin Paradise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Because You were<br \/>\nPerfect<br \/>\nfor the Part.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">At the Audition<br \/>\nevery Move was<br \/>\nFlawless,<br \/>\nas if every Line<br \/>\nwas Written<br \/>\nOnly for You.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I\u2019ve heard<br \/>\nThe Director<br \/>\ngives You a Single<br \/>\nNote<br \/>\nafter every Show,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">whether the Theater<br \/>\nwas Full or<br \/>\nrunning on Empty,<br \/>\nwhether You<br \/>\nstumbled over<br \/>\nbroken Lines or<br \/>\nbrought down<br \/>\nThe House.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">The Director always Says<br \/>\nSomething like This:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Act as If<br \/>\nYou Belong<br \/>\nRight Where You Are,<br \/>\nas if<br \/>\nYou Own that<br \/>\nStage,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Because You Do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Dea Tycor: UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; You Showed Up When the Casting Call went out, You Showed Up and told The Director You wanted to Play You. Which Lit The Director\u2019s Face like a Sunrise in Paradise. Because You were Perfect for the Part. At the Audition every Move was Flawless, as if every Line was Written Only for 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-3061","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\/3061","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=3061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3064,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions\/3064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}