{"id":146,"date":"2009-05-26T18:43:51","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T18:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=146"},"modified":"2009-05-26T18:43:51","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T18:43:51","slug":"can_i_get_your_autograph_miste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2009\/05\/can_i_get_your_autograph_miste\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I Get Your Autograph, Mister?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I was shopping in a local Baltimore grocery store the other day when I spotted Terry O&#8217;Quinn, the actor who plays John Locke on <i>Lost<\/i>. I didn&#8217;t realize at first why I thought I knew him, and so I admit I sort of stared him down for a second while I tried to recall where we met. Once I realized who he was, I felt bad for intruding on his psychic space and promptly returned my attention to my own produce. Brian nudged me to say something to him and later my dad said he would have asked him about his show, but approaching him&#8211;even to just say, &#8220;Hey, love your work!&#8221;&#8211;never even occurred to me. <\/p>\n<p>But later it made me wonder: Do performing artists want to engage in conversations with strangers about their work? Pause in their cereal selection for a thumbs up from a passing shopper? Or would they prefer to just be left alone? As a fan, what&#8217;s the best response to this kind of situation?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/1653729.js\"><\/script><noscript><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\/poll\/1653729\/\">When a performing artist is spotted off stage, what should you do:<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.polldaddy.com\">online surveys<\/a>)<\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was shopping in a local Baltimore grocery store the other day when I spotted Terry O&#8217;Quinn, the actor who plays John Locke on Lost. I didn&#8217;t realize at first why I thought I knew him, and so I admit I sort of stared him down for a second while I tried to recall where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}