{"id":502,"date":"2018-02-20T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/?p=502"},"modified":"2018-02-20T08:56:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T15:56:00","slug":"videos-who-me-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/videos-who-me-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Videos. Who? Me? No."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day, prompted by an urgency to play, I grabbed my video camera and waltzed into my studio, dead set on becoming a star!\u00a0 <em>Oh how I lie<\/em>. In fact, I\u2019ve <em>never<\/em> longed to be in the spotlight, nor any spot that might remotely draw attention. So don\u2019t ask me why, in God\u2019s name, I began making videos of myself reciting odd little writings smack dab in the middle of my studio, before an unforgiving camera that is now filled with enough footage to blackmail me and the characters I rode in on. Yet I must confess, it\u2019s almost embarrassing how much fun I&#8217;ve had.<\/p>\n<p>Still, recording the videos was one thing, watching them, another. After the initial horror, displeasure, then acceptance of seeing and hearing myself on-screen, I became intrigued, and marveled at the way I\u2019d broken my silence \u2013 acted out instead of in.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s known that sharing one\u2019s creations is as important as creating them. That must explain my compulsion to out these videos. Thus far, the fun is outweighing the potential humiliation.<\/p>\n<p>Never did I think I\u2019d have the audacity to take center stage, even alone, safe in the confines of my studio. Clearly <em>any<\/em>one can do <em>any<\/em>thing. What is it you\u2019ve got wrapped so tight it\u2019s unable to breathe? I&#8217;d love to hear about it.<\/p>\n<p>On with the show.\u00a0 (The words are below the video.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"938\" height=\"528\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0CHSCvon84M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Stone Face<\/p>\n<p><em>Well I dragged into my apartment after an especially long day and all I could hear was the rug \u2013 something about leaves, flowers and footprints.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know what it meant, and it was makin\u2019 me nervous.\u00a0 So I stepped around the chaos to my jerry-rigged bar and I fixed myself a drink, on the rocks, a perfect complement to the stone face I\u2019d been wearin\u2019 all day.\u00a0 What was gettin\u2019 me down?!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day, prompted by an urgency to play, I grabbed my video camera and waltzed into my studio, dead set on becoming a star!\u00a0 Oh how I lie. In fact, I\u2019ve never longed to be in the spotlight, nor any spot that might remotely draw attention. So don\u2019t ask me why, in God\u2019s name, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/videos-who-me-no\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playing"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}