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\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>At the end of the play,
\nyou hear your name
\nand as you rise,
\nthe bell chimes.<\/span><\/p>\n

You take the quill
\nand pretend to write your name
\nand then stand in a corner
\nas more names are called
\nand the bell chimes<\/p>\n

louder.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nhttps:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/08\/yes.wav<\/a><\/audio>\n

1776<\/em><\/a> was my introduction to community theatre. The director, Sally Parry, needed 26 men and tried to recruit almost every male in the English Department. I was the only one, other than her husband, who bit. I played the representative from New Hampshire, Josiah Barlett (yes that Josiah Bartlett, West Wing<\/em> fans).<\/p>\n

It was my first time singing in public; I was terrified.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the nineties, I had been doing a good deal of programming, mostly using Apple’s long lamented HyperCard<\/a> a pre-web standalone hypertext program. I had also become fascinated by how you could create poetry in the interfaces of software. After the run of 1776<\/em>, I wrote this poem as a tiny standalone app that contained only a title, my headshot from the show, and a drop down menu. Each fly out menu item contained a stanza of the poem. The last line triggering a wav file of my favorite line from the play: “New Hampshire says, ‘Yea.'” HyperCard is long gone, and I am not convinced that existing at the edges of interface and aesthetics did anything for this poem, but I still like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the end of the play, you hear your name and as you rise, the bell chimes. You take the quill and pretend to write your name and then stand in a corner as more names are called and the bell chimes louder. 1776 was my introduction to community theatre. The director, Sally Parry, needed … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pafo44-3B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}