{"id":860,"date":"2006-03-07T01:25:44","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T09:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2006\/03\/to_be_of_use\/"},"modified":"2006-03-07T01:25:44","modified_gmt":"2006-03-07T09:25:44","slug":"to_be_of_use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/to_be_of_use.php","title":{"rendered":"To be of use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While searching for something else, I stumbled onto a great (as usual) 2004 keynote by Ben Cameron of Theatre Communications Group (you can <a href=\"http:\/\/208.42.63.241\/conference\/Resources.htm\">find the keynote here<\/a>), which led me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northnode.org\/poem.htm\">a wonderful poem by Marge Piercy<\/a> that Ben invokes in his comments.<\/p>\n<p>A favorite passage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nI want to be with people who submerge<br \/>\nin the task, who go into the fields to harvest<br \/>\nand work in a row and pass the bags along,<br \/>\nwho stand in the line and haul in their places,<br \/>\nwho are not parlor generals and field deserters<br \/>\nbut move in a common rhythm<br \/>\nwhen the food must come in or the fire be put out.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Me too, although I&#8217;ll admit to being a parlor general a bit too often. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northnode.org\/poem.htm\">Read the poem<\/a> and roll up your sleeves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While searching for something else, I stumbled onto a great (as usual) 2004 keynote by Ben Cameron of Theatre Communications Group (you can find the keynote here), which led me to a wonderful poem by Marge Piercy that Ben invokes in his comments. A favorite passage: I want to be with people who submerge in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}