{"id":79,"date":"2002-08-23T18:01:26","date_gmt":"2002-08-23T18:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=79"},"modified":"2002-08-23T18:01:26","modified_gmt":"2002-08-23T18:01:26","slug":"opening_night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Opening night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned that I&#8217;m working on the light crew for the Raleigh Little Theater&#8217;s production of <cite>Once Upon a Mattress<\/cite>. Up until now, that hasn&#8217;t required me to do very much. I helped to hang the lights a couple of weeks ago, and I&#8217;ve attended several rehearsals of the show. Last night&#8217;s rehearsal was actually what they call a preview performance; it was a full-scale staging of the play, with costumes, props, lights, orchestra, and audience, but the audience was almost all friends and family of the cast and crew, and they didn&#8217;t pay to see the show. Tonight is the real thing: the first performance for a paying audience. And I&#8217;m running the light board. The curtain goes up in two hours.<br \/>\nWish me luck. I&#8217;ll post more about this later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned that I&#8217;m working on the light crew for the Raleigh Little Theater&#8217;s production of Once Upon a Mattress. Up until now, that hasn&#8217;t required me to do very much. I helped to hang the lights a couple of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=79\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}