{"id":132,"date":"2013-10-21T16:39:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T21:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastmagic.biz\/?p=132"},"modified":"2020-10-29T16:32:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T16:32:44","slug":"dont-dream-its-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastmagic.biz\/marvelousmatt\/2013\/10\/21\/dont-dream-its-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t dream it&#8217;s over&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s been about a week since the Kansas City Renaissance Festival finished up it&#8217;s 2013 season. The last weekend had beautiful weather and according to what I got from the office, record crowds through the gate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My seven weekends at the Wizards Tower went by too fast. I&#8217;ve had several people say that I&#8217;ve matured as a performer. My show has passed through the fire and has become better for it. It&#8217;s more polished and I think a little more entertaining than it started out. There are elements that have been added, some that have been dropped, but many that just needed a little extra performance time to become gems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Going back and reading some earlier posts, I was focused on the fear of standing alone on stage. Would the audience accept me? Would they like what I do? Would I be good enough? The answer to all, I&#8217;ve found, is yes. It seemed all I really needed was to get out there and be myself. I wasn&#8217;t smug, or condescending, I was just me; although I will admit I put on a pretty confident face when I need to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will I be back? You bet I will. At least I hope I will be back. According to the area manger my numbers were pretty good and they weren&#8217;t getting any complaints, so that works in my favor. Steve told me as far as he&#8217;s concerned it&#8217;s gonna be the Steve and Matt on the Wizard&#8217;s Tower next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been about a week since the Kansas City Renaissance Festival finished up it&#8217;s 2013 season. The last weekend had beautiful weather and according to what I got from the office, record crowds through the gate. My seven weekends at the Wizards Tower went by too fast. I&#8217;ve had several people say that I&#8217;ve matured &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pastmagic.biz\/marvelousmatt\/2013\/10\/21\/dont-dream-its-over\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t dream it&#8217;s over&#8230;<\/span> <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":[2,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-magic","category-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastmagic.biz\/marvelousmatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastmagic.biz\/marvelousmatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastmagic.biz\/marvelousmatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastmagic.biz\/marvelousmatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastmagic.biz\/marvelousmatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastmagic.biz\/marvelousmatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/pastmagic.biz\/marvelousmatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastmagic.biz\/marvelousmatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastmagic.biz\/marvelousmatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastmagic.biz\/marvelousmatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}