{"id":8880,"date":"2014-03-26T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=8880"},"modified":"2017-12-05T19:56:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T00:56:04","slug":"verbal-acuity-in-american-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=8880","title":{"rendered":"Verbal Acuity in American Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8881\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8881\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8881\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/annadeavearsmith1.jpg\" alt=\"Actress, playwright, artist Anna Deavere Smith on stage at Hendricks Chapel.\" width=\"508\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/annadeavearsmith1.jpg 508w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/annadeavearsmith1-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8881\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actress, playwright, artist Anna Deavere Smith on stage at Hendricks Chapel.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Anna Deavere Smith breathed life into several characters during her lecture\/performance at Syracuse University on Tuesday afternoon. She almost perfectly embodied the conversational cadence and idioms of former Gov. Anne Richards, Rep. John Lewis and theologian Peter Gomes for about an hour.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe her most impressive\u00a0role\u00a0was portraying prisoner Paulette Jenkins\u00a0for a piece called &#8220;Mirror to\u00a0her Mouth&#8221;. This sobering tale, filled with\u00a0domestic violence, murder and regret, moved the crowd toward\u00a0an almost religious silence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Deavere Smith breathed life into several characters during her lecture\/performance at Syracuse University on Tuesday afternoon. She almost perfectly embodied the conversational cadence and idioms of former Gov. Anne Richards, Rep. John Lewis and theologian Peter Gomes for about an hour. Maybe her most impressive\u00a0role\u00a0was portraying prisoner Paulette Jenkins\u00a0for a piece called &#8220;Mirror to\u00a0her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[3463,3271,3659,1152,3660,64,170,1242,1202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8880"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23512,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8880\/revisions\/23512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}