{"id":94733,"date":"2021-06-26T17:59:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=94733"},"modified":"2021-06-26T17:59:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:59:40","slug":"starstruck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/starstruck\/","title":{"rendered":"Starstruck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Starstruck\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My role: member of Conrad Birdie fan club<\/p>\n<p>running across stage shouting <em>He&#8217;s over there!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Freshman year, extra in <em>Bye Bye Birdie<\/em>. Brownie camera<\/p>\n<p>strapped around my neck, I commanded the stage for one minute,<\/p>\n<p>three words, some thirty yards, enough excitement to fuel a motorboat<\/p>\n<p>plying Lake Michigan. Now the spotlight beaming on the star, senior year Maggie,<\/p>\n<p>burnishing her chestnut hair, her petite frame, her heart shaped face.<\/p>\n<p>She was lovely, I was ready for more lines, applause, blinding lights.<\/p>\n<p>But that was it. Still, I mingled with the cast backstage, the words <em>You&#8217;re On<\/em><\/p>\n<p>sparkling like fairy lights. For me this was a one off. I couldn&#8217;t sing or dance.<\/p>\n<p>I knew I could act, I knew it. But the force of the moment rumbled off<\/p>\n<p>like fading thunder. I playacted backstage as if I belonged.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starstruck\u00a0 &nbsp; My role: member of Conrad Birdie fan club running across stage shouting He&#8217;s over there! Freshman year, extra in Bye Bye Birdie. Brownie camera strapped around my neck, I commanded the stage for one minute, three words, some thirty yards, enough excitement to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1822,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94733","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\/1822"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95119,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94733\/revisions\/95119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}