{"id":184,"date":"2012-01-09T20:41:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T01:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/?p=184"},"modified":"2012-06-09T08:40:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T12:40:09","slug":"a-passion-for-reading-writing-and-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"A passion for reading, writing and theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I loved books before learning to read, and reading quickly became my favourite passtime \u2013 along with writing. Before I handled a pencil, I produced plays with my little brother in our living room, where we presented our masterpieces to our parents, for the low cost of 5\u00a2 &#8211; per ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Great classical playwrights such as Shakespeare and Moli\u00e8re guided my first plays (Des fous et des femmes, 1992; Colour Me Mythed or The Myth of Many Colours, 1993; A Child\u2019s View of Shakespeare, 1992; Les fourberies de Moli\u00e8re ou Le Moli\u00e8re imaginaire, 2001). Studying Michel Tremblay&rsquo;s works also had an impact on my writing (Peau des ongles, 2002), as did my love for Broadway musicals (La Reine a cass\u00e9 sa pipe, 2005).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved books before learning to read, and reading quickly became my favourite passtime \u2013 along with writing. Before I handled a pencil, I produced plays with my little brother in our living room, where we presented our masterpieces to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,87,88,85,86,18,12],"language":[7],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-creative-writing","tag-michel-tremblay","tag-moliere","tag-reading","tag-shakespeare","tag-theatre","tag-writing","language-en_ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Flanguage&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}