{"id":99707,"date":"2021-06-27T01:10:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=99707"},"modified":"2021-07-18T23:43:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T03:43:51","slug":"the-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-actor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Actor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To be. To feel.<\/p>\n<p>To experience that which is<br \/>\nunimaginable in truth.<\/p>\n<p>To pretend, and say these words<br \/>\nwithout thinking,<br \/>\nyet meaning each one.<\/p>\n<p>The art of the play, of drama,<br \/>\nof comedy, of tragedy<\/p>\n<p>brings to view what others<br \/>\nnever want to live:<\/p>\n<p>an imagined world of life,<br \/>\ndeath, and excitement&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>wars and intrigue&#8230;<br \/>\nloves lost, won, and wanted.<\/p>\n<p>Less an icon than an artist<br \/>\nwhose canvas is life itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be. To feel. To experience that which is unimaginable in truth. To pretend, and say these words without thinking, yet meaning each one. The art of the play, of drama, of comedy, of tragedy brings to view what others never want to live: an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99707","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\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104516,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99707\/revisions\/104516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}