{"id":488,"date":"2015-12-22T18:09:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T18:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/?p=488"},"modified":"2015-12-22T18:16:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T18:16:31","slug":"invited-reading-of-i-am-my-own-santa-by-c-denby-swanson-stephen-bittrich-and-david-marantz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/invited-reading-of-i-am-my-own-santa-by-c-denby-swanson-stephen-bittrich-and-david-marantz\/","title":{"rendered":"Invited Reading of &#8220;I Am My Own Santa&#8221; by C. Denby Swanson, Stephen Bittrich, and David Marantz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_2145.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-490\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_2145-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"David Marantz in I Am M Own Santa\" width=\"195\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_2145-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_2145.jpg 670w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a>The brand new play, <em><strong>I Am My Own Santa<\/strong><\/em>, which was written by 3 writers including yours truly, had its first (invited) reading at Access Theater last night. \u00a0The reading was sponsored by the Drilling Company and directed by Hamilton Clancy. \u00a0In the writing process, C. Denby (Colin) and I (here in Austin) have been Skyping with Dave in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The play is a one-man piece about the longing for love and connection from family and friends (or even romantic connection) during the Christmas season for a middle-aged, non-practicing Jewish man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brand new play, I Am My Own Santa, which was written by 3 writers including yours truly, had its first (invited) reading at Access Theater last night. \u00a0The reading was sponsored by the Drilling Company and directed by Hamilton&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/invited-reading-of-i-am-my-own-santa-by-c-denby-swanson-stephen-bittrich-and-david-marantz\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,421,402,5],"tags":[423,422,24,31,134,9],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-full-length-play","category-i-am-my-own-santa","category-news","category-theatre","tag-access-theater","tag-c-denby-swanson","tag-david-marantz","tag-drilling-company","tag-hamilton-clancy","tag-stephen-bittrich"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/I_Am_My_Own_Santa_Blog_banner.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}