{"id":601,"date":"2010-06-16T19:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T23:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/?p=601"},"modified":"2010-06-17T00:52:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T04:52:09","slug":"story-slam-at-writers-and-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2010\/06\/16\/story-slam-at-writers-and-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Story Slam at Writers and Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It's been a while since I did something outside my comfort zone.  Part of that is that my comfort zone is much larger than before, so finding new things is itself a challenge.  Nonetheless, performing still panics me, so I decided to go to the <strong>Story Slam<\/strong> at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wab.org\/\">Writers and Books<\/a><\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=740+University+Ave,+Rochester,+NY&amp;ll=43.15547,-77.58403&amp;spn=.005,.01&amp;hl=en\">740 University Ave.<\/a>)  It's hosted by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carolrobertscomedy.net\/\">Carol Roberts<\/a><\/strong> and organized (for now) as a way for people to tell a 5-minute true story.  It was fascinating to enter among a room of strangers and leave feeling quite a lot closer to them through just one personal story.  I decided to tell the tale of the $20 I found after the High Falls Film Festival in 2003 that led to me losing my job &mdash; I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jayceland.com\/LunchNStuff\/Archives\/2003B13.html\">wrote about it when it happened<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the idea is similar to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoth.org\/storyslams\">The Moth StorySLAMs<\/a><\/strong>, although minus the competition.  Some were better than others for various reasons, but it's not so much a \"slam\" as it is just a way for people to connect.  I'll probably go back next month, although I expect it to be much different as I would feel like I met half the people there this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It's been a while since I did something outside my comfort zone. Part of that is that my comfort zone is much larger than before, so finding new things is itself a challenge. Nonetheless, performing still panics me, so I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2010\/06\/16\/story-slam-at-writers-and-books\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,611,6,23],"tags":[1555,1554,1556,1553,1557],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-blog-entries","category-for-the-parents","category-philosophy","category-theater","tag-carol-roberts","tag-moth-storyslams","tag-story","tag-story-slam","tag-story-telling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}