{"id":15411,"date":"2012-03-21T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2012\/03\/21\/novelists-nightmare\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:14","slug":"novelists-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2012\/03\/21\/novelists-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Novelist\u2019s Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had an actor&#8217;s nightmare yesterday morning: the whole theatre department from my university had reassembled at to re-stage the production of <em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em> we did in 1988, except now we were using the text of <em>Measure for Measure<\/em>, and I couldn&#8217;t get a script &#8217;cause we were all supposed to be off-book &#8212; even though I&#8217;d just been brought in and hadn&#8217;t had any rehearsal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I think this is about the novel: it&#8217;s still in development and I&#8217;m not able to &#8220;perform&#8221; it yet.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had an actor&#8217;s nightmare yesterday morning: the whole theatre department from my university had reassembled at to re-stage the production of Romeo and Juliet we did in 1988, except now we were using the text of Measure for Measure, and I couldn&#8217;t get a script &#8217;cause we were all supposed to be off-book &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}