{"id":66124,"date":"2020-06-27T14:26:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=66124"},"modified":"2020-06-27T14:33:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:33:40","slug":"prompt-six-6-all-roads-lead-to-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/prompt-six-6-all-roads-lead-to-broadway\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt Six (6): All Roads Lead To Broadway [Hour 6]"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #008000\"><em><strong>All Roads Lead To Broadway<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A soft cool breeze &#8230; as I step outside to the fresh spring day!<\/p>\n<p>The smell of New York City &#8230; from Central Park.<\/p>\n<p>Green trees and chirping birds &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A song of joy &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A song of life!<\/p>\n<p>Walking with a song in my head &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>the notes clear, my voice stronger than ever &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Am I singing out loud? Of course, must rehearse &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>and the sight of words that make my heart fill with love: <strong>Stage Door<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes! I am on Broadway . .\u00a0 .<\/p>\n<p>The Greatest Place on Earth to us who love to . . .<\/p>\n<p><em>perform theatre<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>The smell of the crowd, the roar of the greasepaint . . .<\/p>\n<p>Although, these days, it&#8217;s the smell of musty old theatre parts, clean costumes.<\/p>\n<p>The greasepaint is Max Factor and a bit of pancake make-up. Microphones taped in your wig.<\/p>\n<p>Still, a theatre, no matter where or what size &#8230; that wood and dust that makes an asthmatic wheeze;<\/p>\n<p>yet, with joy!<\/p>\n<p>Lights blinding me from the coughing, oohs and ahs of the blurred faces.<\/p>\n<p>I can feel their energy, their expectation &#8230; butterflies move through my stomach and to my knees.<\/p>\n<p>Nerves mean you care &#8230; their energy makes me fly high! I am flying high.<\/p>\n<p>Never toked a day in my life, but every performance on stage &#8230; I fly!<\/p>\n<p>Those hot lights feel like God himself is smiling at me . . .<\/p>\n<p>summoning me to sing the joy in my heart and soul!<\/p>\n<p>This is orgasm of the whole body &#8230; it&#8217;s like an explosion of ecstasy! BOOM!<\/p>\n<h2><em>Manifesting the dream<\/em>!<em> <span style=\"color: #008000\">MAGICAL<\/span><\/em>!<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Roads Lead To Broadway A soft cool breeze &#8230; as I step outside to the fresh spring day! The smell of New York City &#8230; from Central Park. Green trees and chirping birds &#8230; A song of joy &#8230; A song of life! Walking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":745,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,2114,1136,441,5],"tags":[3442,3639,3641,3138,3640,619,3643,3642,1031,199],"class_list":["post-66124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-musings","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-2020poetrymarathon","tag-actress","tag-angela-theresa-collins","tag-angela-theresa-egic","tag-broadway","tag-joy","tag-performing","tag-singer","tag-song","tag-soul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/745"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66124"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66496,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66124\/revisions\/66496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}