{"id":333,"date":"2003-06-29T23:42:14","date_gmt":"2003-06-30T06:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=333"},"modified":"2003-06-29T23:42:14","modified_gmt":"2003-06-30T06:42:14","slug":"true-west-by-sam-shepard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/06\/true-west-by-sam-shepard\/","title":{"rendered":"True West by Sam Shepard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the college eddicated brother and the breaking-and-entering brother are thrown together in their mom&#8217;s house in Podunk southern california to fight over a screenplay and sibling rivalry.<\/p>\n<p>One of the major things in this play is the question of what kind of story is true-to-life. In a lot of ways, the answer to that question depends on whose life you are talking about.<\/p>\n<p>What is a Western anymore? Is the western dead? Or maybe westerns are not about horse chases and desert living.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe they are more about trying to make it on freeways and in the office. But maybe they still involve horse chases.<\/p>\n<p>It depends on your life. These guys are so funny. I think they are true to somebody&#8217;s life. The true west now might be a lot like that.<\/p>\n<p>Or not. Hard to say. But this story was funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the college eddicated brother and the breaking-and-entering brother are thrown together in their mom&#8217;s house in Podunk southern california to fight over a screenplay and sibling rivalry. One of the major things in this play is the question of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/06\/true-west-by-sam-shepard\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/06\/true-west-by-sam-shepard\/\">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-333","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\/333","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=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}