{"id":13805,"date":"2014-10-03T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13805"},"modified":"2014-10-03T07:00:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T12:00:55","slug":"my-lack-of-memory-is-a-sign-of-sophistication-not-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/03\/my-lack-of-memory-is-a-sign-of-sophistication-not-aging\/","title":{"rendered":"My Lack of Memory Is A Sign Of Sophistication, Not Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"

So as I was organizing my comic book collection (finally, at the age of forty-something), I came across a couple of sixteen year old playbills from a performance of David Hare’s Skylight<\/em> at the St. Louis Reperatory Theater:<\/p>\n

\"Playbill<\/p>\n

I have no recollection of this play.<\/em><\/p>\n

The fact that I have two programs indicates I took my beautiful girlfriend to the play. Perhaps that’s why I don’t remember; the play was overshadowed by the woman with me.<\/p>\n

I went to a lot of plays in the 1990s, first at college and then a few after I returned from college to Missouri. I saw the Norman Conquests five times: Round and Round the Garden<\/em>, Living Together<\/em>, and Table Manners<\/em> (2x) in Milwaukee (with three different young ladies, I add) and once at the Chesterfield Community Theatre at the YMCA out in St. Louis County. I saw Sight Unseen<\/em> and The Visit<\/em> in Milwaukee during college along with some collegiate productions like The Marriage of Bette and Boo<\/em> and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead<\/em>. I saw The Ghetto<\/em> at the backdoor theater of the St. Louis Rep because I was kinda interested in the one young lady in it. I saw a play at St. Louis Community College-Meramec because I was dating a girl in the theatre program there. I saw Dancing at Lughnasa<\/em> at the St. Louis Rep. Was that the winter one, where I took Amy on college break? I saw Picasso at Lapin Agile<\/em> and some other oddity at the Clayton Community Theatre because my beautiful by then wife knew someone in the troupe. I also saw an awful lot of Ragged Blade Productions because I volunteered with that group. Well, I was at a lot of Ragged Blade Productions or rehearsals. Maybe I didn’t see that many plays there.<\/p>\n

But Skylight<\/em>? Even reviewing the rep’s production notes<\/a> or the Wikipedia entry<\/a> leaves me no closer to a memory.<\/p>\n

I prefer to see this as a mark of my sophistication: That I have forgotten more play performances than most modern people can remember.<\/p>\n

But it is probably more the case that I’m getting old and\/or that I’m overwriting previously used blocks of memory with Imagine Dragons lyrics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So as I was organizing my comic book collection (finally, at the age of forty-something), I came across a couple of sixteen year old playbills from a performance of David Hare’s Skylight at the St. Louis Reperatory Theater: I have no recollection of this play. The fact that I have two programs indicates I took […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13806,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805\/revisions\/13806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}