{"id":129230,"date":"2015-10-30T22:39:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T22:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/30\/notbecauseofvictories-the-thing-about\/"},"modified":"2015-10-30T22:39:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T22:39:50","slug":"notbecauseofvictories-the-thing-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/30\/notbecauseofvictories-the-thing-about\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/notbecauseofvictories.tumblr.com\/post\/63780497768\" target=\"_blank\">notbecauseofvictories<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>the thing about shakespeare is that when it\u2019s done right, when it\u2019s done well, it should sound like it\u2019s coming from the soles of your shoes, being dredged up from the dark places in your lungs and exhaled in a rush, before it burns your mouth.\u00a0There are pauses, swallows, reverberations, inflections, because how else are you to laugh and sing and snarl and spill forth these lines?<\/p>\n<p>shakespeare done well by actors who know what they\u2019re doing stops sounding like shakespeare. It slips inside your blood, inflects you brain, raging through your system until this is the only language you have ever known, will ever need. It makes the theater the world entire.<\/p>\n<p>shakespeare should sound like lightning; it should <em>turn the air silver<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>and once you\u2019ve witnessed that, it\u2019s hard to accept anything less.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>notbecauseofvictories: the thing about shakespeare is that when it\u2019s done right, when it\u2019s done well, it should sound like it\u2019s coming from the soles of your shoes, being dredged up from the dark places in your lungs and exhaled in a rush, before it burns your mouth.\u00a0There are pauses, swallows, reverberations, inflections, because how else &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/30\/notbecauseofvictories-the-thing-about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[446,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}