{"id":573889165,"date":"2016-04-22T21:23:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T02:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573889165"},"modified":"2016-11-30T14:37:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T20:37:44","slug":"sitting-stage-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2016\/04\/22\/sitting-stage-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitting stage left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American holly, <em>Ilex opaca<\/em>, in Auburn, Alabama.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=800 height=600 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr16\/apr35.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s outside Telfair Peet, the theatre building. We were there for a show tonight. If you&#8217;re in or near Auburn you need to come see this show this weekend. <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Tessa Carr, who wrote and directed the show, is a friend of ours. We&#8217;ve been talking about this performance for months. It sounded great and played even better. Go see &#8220;The Integration of Tuskegee High School.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=600 height=800 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr16\/apr36.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>What Tessa wrote about this show gets right to the point of the performance:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=800 height=600 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr16\/apr37.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>All of the players are college students. And in every show I&#8217;ve seen they always do a great job, especially when you consider the demands on their time. And even moreso in this case, some of the actors and actresses aren&#8217;t theater majors or have never been on stage before. <\/p>\n<p>Also, I know some of the people being portrayed in the play, and know most of the names of the rest. A few of them were in the audience. That must be wild, to see yourself portrayed on stage. <\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re doing a Q&#038;A after the show, and that&#8217;s worth hearing, particularly when the people who lived in those moments are there to take part. But the show itself, the show is powerful and terrific. <\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> They&#8217;ve uploaded the full show. It is full of important history lesson that we should remember, lest we forget:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yKX0DLTI7cM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American holly, Ilex opaca, in Auburn, Alabama. That&#8217;s outside Telfair Peet, the theatre building. We were there for a show tonight. If you&#8217;re in or near Auburn you need to come see this show this weekend. Dr. Tessa Carr, who wrote and directed the show, is a friend of ours. We&#8217;ve been talking about this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18,14,22,32,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573889165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-auburn","category-friday","category-friends","category-history","category-photo","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573889165"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573889169,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889165\/revisions\/573889169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573889165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573889165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573889165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}