{"id":1644,"date":"2006-09-10T16:24:33","date_gmt":"2006-09-10T23:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/09\/10\/theres-something-shady-going-on\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:42:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:42:44","slug":"theres-something-shady-going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/09\/10\/theres-something-shady-going-on\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s Something Shady Going On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This evening Husband and I will be attending a performance by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadyshakes.org\/\">Shady Shakespeare Theatre Company<\/a>. We&#8217;ll see The Taming of the Shrew (and Husband said he&#8217;s going to take notes &#8212; ha!).<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago we saw Hamlet there. We had just arrived and several friends invited us (we were six in total). I was sad and missing Austin. We had fun, and it was good to get out. But I really felt adrift. Now, two years later, I coordinated the gathering and we invited 12 friends. Kind of amazing now life blooms over time.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve packed a picnic supper for the event. Husband built turkey sandwiches and gathered veggies, fruit, and some Shiner Bock for the cooler, while I baked Oatmeal Butterscotch cookies (with plenty to share). I&#8217;ve only seen this play once before, performed on television, with Meryl Streep as Kate (and she was an amazing Kate!); it was a theater production that had been filmed in 1978. I also recently saw a clever modernization of it in the form of a movie, <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0147800\/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxrdz0xfHE9MTAgdGhpbmdzIGkgaGF0ZSBhYm91dCB5b3V8ZnQ9MXxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8Y289MXxodG1sPTF8bm09MQ__;fc=1;ft=20\">Ten Things I Hate About You<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening Husband and I will be attending a performance by the Shady Shakespeare Theatre Company. We&#8217;ll see The Taming of the Shrew (and Husband said he&#8217;s going to take notes &#8212; ha!). Two years ago we saw Hamlet there. We had just arrived and several friends invited us (we were six in total). I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-regional"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11129,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions\/11129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}