{"id":221,"date":"2011-04-05T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=221"},"modified":"2011-04-05T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T15:00:00","slug":"on-stage-hobbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2011\/04\/05\/on-stage-hobbi\/","title":{"rendered":"On Stage: The Hobbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog6\/hobbit.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Richard Grafton, a theatre mastermind and teacher at my school, directed a production of Tolkien&#8217;s <i>The Hobbit<\/i> (play by Kim Selody) for the students back in February. He sent out an all call to the teachers to see if anyone was interested in being Smaug &#8211; the dragon. I eagerly volunteered.<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog6\/smaug.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>What a blast to be a part of! I didn&#8217;t have many lines and I was off stage inside a huge duct tape head, so I only had to emote with my voice. It also meant that I didn&#8217;t have to go to many rehearsals, though a couple more may have done me good as I was still learning my lines the day of the first show. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The four shows we put on over 2 days went super. I was very impressed with how organized and professional the crew was &#8211; mostly made up of jr. high and elementary students (with a handful of 10th graders).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I read The Hobbit for the first time when I was in grade 7. It moved me deeply. I dreamed of making the film and I even designed an 18 hole miniature golf course following the various scenes from The Hobbit.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Grafton, a theatre mastermind and teacher at my school, directed a production of Tolkien&#8217;s The Hobbit (play by Kim Selody) for the students back in February. He sent out an all call to the teachers to see if anyone was interested in being Smaug &#8211; the dragon. I eagerly volunteered. What a blast to &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2011\/04\/05\/on-stage-hobbi\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,14,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-221","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-books","9":"category-education","10":"category-flashback","11":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}