{"id":688,"date":"2014-07-16T02:21:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T02:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/?p=688"},"modified":"2014-07-16T02:21:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T02:21:56","slug":"episode-52-carol-piersol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/?p=688","title":{"rendered":"Episode 52: Carol Piersol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/episode-52-carol-piersol\/carol_piersolweb\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-687\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-687\" src=\"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/carol_piersolweb-e1405475911102.jpg\" alt=\"carol_piersolweb\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1578\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCarol is the former Artistic Director of the Firehouse Theatre and has started a new company called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.5thwalltheatre.org\/\">Fifth Wall Theatre<\/a> with actor Billy-Christopher Maupin. Over the last few month I have seen two of her newest productions and found myself wondering why the hell I haven&#8217;t paid more attention to theatre in general. It&#8217;s immediate and visceral and a little intimidating sometimes but always illuminating. Carol through her years of involvement in Richmond theatre has brought challenging and fresh productions to a city that has been fondly referred to as 30 years behind everywhere else and from her I get some insight into what theatre can be and how much better I could be at listening to it and everyone else.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/tantric-conversation\/id667224769\">Subscribe to iTunes here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carol is the former Artistic Director of the Firehouse Theatre and has started a new company called the Fifth Wall Theatre with actor Billy-Christopher Maupin. Over the last few month I have seen two of her newest productions and found &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/?p=688\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}