{"id":42622,"date":"2014-02-16T22:20:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T22:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/notable_and_quotable_i6\/"},"modified":"2014-02-16T22:20:39","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T22:20:39","slug":"notable_and_quotable_i6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42622","title":{"rendered":"Notable and Quotable (I)&#8211;The Tortuous desire to be great at portraying others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen I saw \u201d\u02dcAll My Sons,\u2019 I was changed \u201d\u201d permanently changed \u201d\u201d by that experience&#8230;.It was like a miracle to me. But that deep kind of love comes at a price: for me, acting is torturous, and it\u2019s torturous because you know it\u2019s a beautiful thing. I was young once, and I said, That\u2019s beautiful and I want that. Wanting it is easy, but trying to be great \u201d\u201d well, that\u2019s absolutely torturous.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Philip Seymour Hoffman as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/09\/opinion\/sunday\/the-games-begin-in-russia-and-an-actors-life-ends-in-new-york.html\">quoted in the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen I saw \u201d\u02dcAll My Sons,\u2019 I was changed \u201d\u201d permanently changed \u201d\u201d by that experience&#8230;.It was like a miracle to me. But that deep kind of love comes at a price: for me, acting is torturous, and it\u2019s torturous<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42622\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,175,101,93,129,127,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-children","category-movies-television","category-psychology","category-theatredramaplays","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}