{"id":2718,"date":"2014-02-28T09:38:15","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T16:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2014-02-28T09:38:15","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T16:38:15","slug":"the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/2014\/02\/28\/the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I have a fifteen-page play due on Monday. I&#8217;m really not sure why I&#8217;m writing this blog entry right now, honestly&#8211;every waking moment should be spent on this play. I have a semi-story in my head, and about a page on paper. Right now my main concern is making it work without a lot of stage direction. That seems to be a weakness of mine; I did it in The Attic Play, and now that Idris has limited the amount of direction we can write in, I&#8217;m forced to write a play that relies heavily on dialogue. It&#8217;s a great exercise, because I&#8217;m terrible at dialogue, but also I&#8217;m terrible at dialogue, so this is exceedingly difficult.<\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;m trying to write about a cult leader&#8217;s funeral. The more I think about it, the less I think it will work as a story. In fact, I think as I write this I&#8217;m changing my mind. Crap.<\/p>\n<p> Updates to come again&#8211;we&#8217;ll see where I go.<\/p>\n<p>Love, Alec<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a fifteen-page play due on Monday. I&#8217;m really not sure why I&#8217;m writing this blog entry right now, honestly&#8211;every waking moment should be spent on this play. I have a semi-story in my head, and about a page on paper. Right now my main concern is making it work without a lot of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/2014\/02\/28\/the-weekend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Weekend&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":593,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1RtXj-HQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/593"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2723,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions\/2723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}