{"id":300,"date":"2009-02-22T20:10:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T08:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=300"},"modified":"2009-02-22T20:10:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T08:10:41","slug":"pet-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/pet-sounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Pet Sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Courier;\"><b>Roger Ebert<\/b>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.suntimes.com\/ebert\/2009\/02\/blackie_come_home.html\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> about his <strike>pets<\/strike> animal companions got me thinking.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks back, I spent a day in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\" target=\"_blank\">Radio New Zealand<\/a> studio <strike>watching<\/strike> listening to a script being recorded.  I spent most of that day with my eyes closed &#8211; but instead of falling asleep as I normally would, I found myself transported into a story that I not only wrote but thought I knew inside out.  (That&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/18\/aktors\/\">actors<\/a> for you.)  (And I guess radio&#8217;s not called <i>theatre of the mind<\/i> for nothing.)<\/p>\n<p>Since then, I&#8217;ve become just a bit more conscious of what I hear.  Small, everyday sounds like &#8212;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The cccclicks of The Dog&#8217;s nails on concrete during our runs.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The grunting-beakfuls as The Chickens scarf up their seeds and pellets.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The low boaah-boaaahh of The Chickens as they go about their business.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The Cat&#8217;s paws ghosting through the house.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The Dog&#8217;s tail ffwhiffing across the floor as she sits, expectant.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The kggghhh-snort-grunt of The Dog in contentment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These give me warm fuzzies.<\/p>\n<p>And when I work them into my scripts and they make it onto the screen without someone <i>explicating<\/i> it, I&#8217;ll be happy.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Ebert&#8216;s post about his pets animal companions got me thinking. A couple of weeks back, I spent a day in a Radio New Zealand studio watching listening to a script being recorded. I spent most of that day with my eyes closed &#8211; but instead of falling asleep as I normally would, I found &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/pet-sounds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pet Sounds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[33,51,52],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scriptwriting","tag-actors","tag-radio-drama","tag-roger-ebert"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}