{"id":179,"date":"2005-10-06T21:33:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-07T05:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/06\/august-wilson\/"},"modified":"2007-05-05T20:07:02","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T04:07:02","slug":"august-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/06\/august-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"August Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As most Seattleites are aware, <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/theater\/256335_fanf20.html\">playwright August Wilson died this week<\/a>. I&#8217;ve always wanted to read his series of &#8220;decade plays&#8221;, and I thought now would be a good time, to honor his passing.<\/p>\n<p>The Seattle Rep is putting on the last one, &#8220;Radio Golf&#8221; (1990s) from Jan 19-Feb 18. It would be cool to finish the plays before then, and end by seeing &#8220;Radio Golf&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s about four months to read 8 plays (skipping &#8220;Radio Golf&#8221; and &#8220;Ma Rainey&#8217;s Black Bottom&#8221;, which I saw performed last year). I&#8217;d have to read 2 plays a month. I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s feasible, given the holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>Is anyone else interested in doing this with me? Any feedback or ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As most Seattleites are aware, playwright August Wilson died this week. I&#8217;ve always wanted to read his series of &#8220;decade plays&#8221;, and I thought now would be a good time, to honor his passing. The Seattle Rep is putting on the last one, &#8220;Radio Golf&#8221; (1990s) from Jan 19-Feb 18. It would be cool to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}