{"id":34186,"date":"2025-08-15T06:25:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T11:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34186"},"modified":"2025-08-15T06:25:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T11:25:48","slug":"on-second-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/15\/on-second-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"On Second Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere, I saw that there was a new theatre group in town doing Shakespeare, and I kinda put it in the back of my mind in case our August was not already busy enough.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;m glad I did not rush right out and buy tickets.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/tempestqcs.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Oh, but of course they did.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re putting it on for themselves and their small circle, and part of the joy is in self-martyrdom when the public does not attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere, I saw that there was a new theatre group in town doing Shakespeare, and I kinda put it in the back of my mind in case our August was not already busy enough. I guess I&#8217;m glad I did not rush right out and buy tickets. Oh, but of course they did. They&#8217;re putting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34186","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=34186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34187,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34186\/revisions\/34187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}