{"id":1373,"date":"2017-03-03T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/normangilliland.com\/wordpress\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2020-07-07T09:40:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T15:40:13","slug":"1373-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/normangilliland.com\/wordpress\/1373-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Benefits of Laughter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>On&nbsp;March 3 and 5, 2017, at the Gainesville Woman&#8217;s Club:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gainesville, Florida&#8230;.radio-style dinner theater that invites the audience to come in costume&#8230;.<strong><em>The Heroes of Bent Fork Bluff<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1876, when a charismatic con man comes to a drought-stricken Texas town promising rain, everyone&#8217;s in for a big surprise&#8211;including him. &nbsp;Our play is a blend of comedy and romance flavored with a dash of satire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Our fourth annual benefit performance for Gainesville schools.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Laughs Take a Holiday&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the third year, radio-style dinner theater has benefited Florida schools with performances at the Gainesville Women&#8217;s Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Set on a cruise ship bound for Cuba in 1956, &#8220;Laughs Take a Holiday&#8221; follows the misadventures of a group of amateur birdwatchers, a radio comic trying to come to terms with TV, and an Oklahoma cattle queen fixing to bust loose from her marriage. In what&#8217;s becoming a tradition, the dinner theater audience came out for the 2016 gala &#8220;decked&#8221; out in Fifties attire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On&nbsp;March 3 and 5, 2017, at the Gainesville Woman&#8217;s Club: Gainesville, Florida&#8230;.radio-style dinner theater that invites the audience to come in costume&#8230;.The Heroes of Bent Fork Bluff: In 1876, when a charismatic con man comes to a drought-stricken Texas town &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/normangilliland.com\/wordpress\/1373-2\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/normangilliland.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/normangilliland.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/normangilliland.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/normangilliland.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/normangilliland.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/normangilliland.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1375,"href":"http:\/\/normangilliland.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions\/1375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/normangilliland.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/normangilliland.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/normangilliland.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}