{"id":71,"date":"2005-05-31T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-31T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-05-31T06:17:40","modified_gmt":"2005-05-31T13:17:40","slug":"the-tempest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/31\/the-tempest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tempest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening my mom and I went to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfstl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis&#8217;<\/a> production of &quot;The Tempest&quot; in Forest Park.&nbsp; It was such a great way to spend the afternoon and evening&#8230;&nbsp; We got there early (around 4:00pm) and claimed a nice patch of ground for our blanket right up near the stage.&nbsp; We did some crosswords and watched the clouds, read the program and wandered the gounds&#8230;&nbsp; Around 6:30m the &quot;Green Show&quot; started.&nbsp; There were minstrels, jugglers, aerial acts, a shorter\/easier to understand production of the play (&quot;Tempest in a Flash&quot;) to give people an idea of the plot &#8211; many things to keep us entertained.&nbsp; At 8:00pm the show started and, wow, was it cool.&nbsp; The stage (see below) was very well crafted and fit right in with the surroundings.&nbsp; The acting was great, and thanks to &quot;Tempest in a Flash&quot; I could really follow what was going on the whole time.&nbsp; We had a nice picnic dinner of sandwiches, fruit and veggies, and cheese and crackers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Picture(1).jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/user_files\/Image\/email\/2005-05-31-06-08-00-1385.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Picture(2).jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/user_files\/Image\/email\/2005-05-31-06-08-00-1457.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Picture(3).jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/user_files\/Image\/email\/2005-05-31-06-08-00-6694.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening my mom and I went to see the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis&#8217; production of &quot;The Tempest&quot; in Forest Park.&nbsp; It was such a great way to spend the afternoon and evening&#8230;&nbsp; We got there early (around 4:00pm) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/31\/the-tempest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}