{"id":895,"date":"2015-05-09T11:18:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T15:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavartists.com\/wavblog\/?p=895"},"modified":"2015-05-21T16:37:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T20:37:36","slug":"the-vendor-played-by-vonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wavartistsventura.com\/wavblog\/?p=895","title":{"rendered":"The Vendor Played by Vonder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wavartistsventura.com\/wavlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/vonder_600.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-896\" src=\"http:\/\/wavartistsventura.com\/wavlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/vonder_600.jpg\" alt=\"vonder_600\" width=\"600\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wavartistsventura.com\/wavblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/vonder_600.jpg 600w, http:\/\/wavartistsventura.com\/wavblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/vonder_600-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WAV artist\/actress Vonder Gray played the part of a\u00a0PhD who unfortunately ends up on the street selling her collectibles to make a living in today&#8217;s harsh environment. She doesn&#8217;t take charity donations, but will read Shakespeare in exchange, to the occasional\u00a0passerby who recognizes her talent and intelligence. Often those attentive listeners are her own pets, Ophelia and Hamlet.<\/p>\n<p>The<em> Vendor<\/em>\u00a0is a 30 minute play, coming from the creative mind and talent\u00a0of WAV artist and writer Frances Spencer. The play was directed by Leslie Paxton and excellently portrayed by Vonder.<\/p>\n<p>Four performances graced the WAV community space that became a theater for a few night&#8217;s enjoyment and education. The play was part of Vonder&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Woman in Art<\/em> exhibit for the month of May 2015.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This is to extend my thanks again to actress Vonder Gray for breathing life into the character of The Vendor and making it her own; with special thanks to Leslie Paxton of Ojai for directing, to Sarah Kalvin for assisting with lighting, and to\u00a0 WAV friends\u00a0who came to see\u00a0my play.&#8221;<\/em> \u00a0Frances Spencer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WAV artist\/actress Vonder Gray played the part of a\u00a0PhD who unfortunately ends up on the street selling her collectibles to make a living in today&#8217;s harsh environment. She doesn&#8217;t take charity donations, but will read Shakespeare in exchange, to the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wavartistsventura.com\/wavblog\/?p=895\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavartistsventura.com\/wavblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavartistsventura.com\/wavblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavartistsventura.com\/wavblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavartistsventura.com\/wavblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavartistsventura.com\/wavblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/wavartistsventura.com\/wavblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"http:\/\/wavartistsventura.com\/wavblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavartistsventura.com\/wavblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavartistsventura.com\/wavblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavartistsventura.com\/wavblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}