{"id":18,"date":"2011-03-18T12:24:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T16:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2011-03-18T12:25:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T16:25:16","slug":"agented-how-is-this-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Agented?  HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People watch plays.\u00a0 They do.\u00a0 They leave their houses and sit in the dark to watch people pretend to be other people doing things that aren&#8217;t real.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plato%27s_cave\">Plato&#8217;s Cave<\/a> with an intermission.\u00a0 Now, if we accept the above statements as true, it is safe to assume that someone must be responsible for the generation of these plays.\u00a0 They don&#8217;t occur unbidden in nature to my knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the playwright&#8217;s workload is asking people if they&#8217;re interested in seeing a script.\u00a0 &#8220;Hey, I&#8217;ve got this script about love and loss in 1400&#8217;s Amsterdam.\u00a0 Sound cool?\u00a0 No?\u00a0 OK, no big.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in the process doing this currently, and received a response I found odd:\u00a0<strong> &#8220;We only accept unsolicited scripts from agented playwrights.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What?\u00a0 Who are these agented playwrights you&#8217;re talking about?\u00a0 I assume you mean &#8220;people who have agents because of the other writing they&#8217;ve done and decided to try a play.&#8221;\u00a0 If there are agents out there who will represent someone based on the $25 they&#8217;ll get payed every two years, please let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People watch plays.\u00a0 They do.\u00a0 They leave their houses and sit in the dark to watch people pretend to be other people doing things that aren&#8217;t real.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like Plato&#8217;s Cave with an intermission.\u00a0 Now, if we accept the above statements as true, it is safe to assume that someone must be responsible for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-playwriting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}