{"id":7022,"date":"2014-12-02T17:23:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T22:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=7022"},"modified":"2014-12-06T10:36:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T15:36:32","slug":"wca-play-auditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=7022","title":{"rendered":"WCA Play Auditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7024\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_20141202_094883.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7024\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_20141202_094883-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Emily, Becky, Dorothy, Michelle, and Lauren\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7024\" data-wp-pid=\"7024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_20141202_094883-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_20141202_094883-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_20141202_094883-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_20141202_094883-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_20141202_094883.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7024\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emily, Becky, Dorothy, Michelle, and Lauren<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Want to do something that will make you gray before your time? Try directing a high school play. It starts early, with the auditions. There is never the perfect cast for a play, especially when you are at a smallish school with fewer actors and potential actors than you need. It&#8217;s made worse by the competition with sports, which pulls some of the most promising out of contention. Then, oddly enough, the students have their own ideas about which part they should have, often without regard to whether they really could pull it off. As you can see, Becky (second from the left) is already starting to feel it, and the auditions had only just started. It&#8217;s going to be a long time until April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to do something that will make you gray before your time? Try directing a high school play. It starts early, with the auditions. There is never the perfect cast for a play, especially when you are at a smallish school with fewer actors and potential actors than you need. It&#8217;s made worse by the &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=7022\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7025,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7022\/revisions\/7025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}