{"id":4695,"date":"2016-09-14T22:45:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T10:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/?p=4695"},"modified":"2016-09-14T22:45:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T10:45:49","slug":"still-life-with-chickens-another-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/still-life-with-chickens-another-play\/","title":{"rendered":"STILL LIFE WITH CHICKENS: another play"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4634\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4634\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2151.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4634\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2151-480x640.jpg?resize=480%2C640\" alt=\"Une poule.\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2151-scaled.jpg?resize=480%2C640&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2151-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2151-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2151-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2151-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2151-scaled.jpg?w=1050&amp;ssl=1 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Une poule.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sharp-eyed (and long-suffering) readers of this blog may have put <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/2016\/07\/29\/fill-in-the-gaps\/\">lua<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/2016\/08\/29\/fork\/\" target=\"_blank\">two<\/a> together to know that I&#8217;m working on a new play called <em>Still Life With Chickens.<\/em> It&#8217;s about an elderly Samoan woman who reluctantly adopts a barnevelder chicken and learns that there\u2019s more to her sunset years than waiting for death.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t usually announce projects in development but since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativenz.govt.nz\/results-of-our-work\/who-got-funded\/funding-rounds\/quick-response-grants-6\" target=\"_blank\">Creative New Zealand<\/a> has kindly provided a grant (and I&#8217;m a week behind on feeding this blog), I thought, <em>What&#8217;s the harm in putting pressure on myself by announcing a work-in-progress that I&#8217;ll probably be asked about ad nauseum?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharp-eyed (and long-suffering) readers of this blog may have put lua and two together to know that I&#8217;m working on a new play called Still Life With Chickens. It&#8217;s about an elderly Samoan woman who reluctantly adopts a barnevelder chicken and learns that there\u2019s more to her sunset years than waiting for death. I don&#8217;t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/still-life-with-chickens-another-play\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;STILL LIFE WITH CHICKENS: another play&#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":[4,23],"tags":[14,451,1210],"class_list":["post-4695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scriptwriting","category-theatre","tag-chickens","tag-creative-new-zealand","tag-still-life-with-chickens"],"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\/4695","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=4695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4697,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695\/revisions\/4697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}