{"id":106,"date":"2002-10-18T18:01:21","date_gmt":"2002-10-19T01:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=106"},"modified":"2002-10-18T18:01:21","modified_gmt":"2002-10-19T01:01:21","slug":"the-prisoner-of-second-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2002\/10\/the-prisoner-of-second-avenue\/","title":{"rendered":"THe Prisoner of Second Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I managed to find some quiet moments to listen to <a href=\"www.latw.org\">LA Theater Works&#8217; <\/a>&#8221; The Prisoner of Second Avenue.&#8221; Neil Simon<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msu.edu\/~pelowsk1\/neilsimon\/\"><\/a> is a funny guy. But you all know that.<\/p>\n<p>This one wasn&#8217;t full of symbolism and deeper meaning. It reminded me of a black-and-white slapstick sitcom. It was funny.<\/p>\n<p>He published it in the 70s, and the many references to Valium make it seem pretty dated. Valium is not the trendy drug that it used to be.<\/p>\n<p>I especially liked the gasps by Richard Dreyfuss&#8230;I think it must take practice to gasp that well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I managed to find some quiet moments to listen to LA Theater Works&#8217; &#8221; The Prisoner of Second Avenue.&#8221; Neil Simon is a funny guy. But you all know that. This one wasn&#8217;t full of symbolism and deeper meaning. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2002\/10\/the-prisoner-of-second-avenue\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2002\/10\/the-prisoner-of-second-avenue\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theater-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}