{"id":6376,"date":"2012-01-23T06:11:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T06:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=6376"},"modified":"2012-01-23T06:11:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T06:11:38","slug":"the-surprising-thing-about-hamlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=6376","title":{"rendered":"The surprising thing about Hamlet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular Twitter friends will know that, on Friday, I went in to London to watch the Young Vic&#8217;s &#8216;Hamlet&#8217;, featuring Michael Sheen in the title role.<\/p>\n<p>A full and detailed review is in the works, and will be published soon.<\/p>\n<p>However.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine my surprise as, settling down, five minutes before the performance, the stranger seated next to me leaned over, offered me his hand and said &#8216;It&#8217;s Brennig, isn&#8217;t it?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>And the world visibly shrank around me, as that list of &#8216;Random People You Know But Are Never Going To Meet At A Performance Of Hamlet At The Young Vic&#8217; had a line drawn through a name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular Twitter friends will know that, on Friday, I went in to London to watch the Young Vic&#8217;s &#8216;Hamlet&#8217;, featuring Michael Sheen in the title<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}