{"id":148,"date":"2011-10-29T22:10:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T03:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/?p=148"},"modified":"2015-06-22T16:18:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:18:48","slug":"reading-of-the-castle-play-by-former-inmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/2011\/10\/29\/reading-of-the-castle-play-by-former-inmates\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading of The Castle: play by former inmates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/venturingout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/castle_logo10-151-1024x784.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"600\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Venturing Out <a href=\"http:\/\/venturingout.org\/fundraiser\/\">writes<\/a>, <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Originally written and performed Off-Broadway by four ex-offenders, The Castle interweaves their real life stories from childhood to crime to creating straight and sober lives filled with hope and courage. Through emotionally compelling monologues, the play conveys a powerful message about the challenges that ex-offenders face and societal treatment of people coming out of prison.<\/p>\n<p>The Castle is the first off-Broadway play to be comprised entirely of formerly incarcerated actors.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The staged reading will be performed on December 8 as part of a fundraiser for <a href=\"http:\/\/venturingout.org\/\">Venturing Out<\/a>, a Wellesley based non-profit dedicated to developing entrepreneurship among incarcerated and court-involved adults and high-risk youth.  <\/p>\n<p>Tickets can be purchased <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brownpapertickets.com\/event\/206844\">here<\/a> and more details can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/venturingout.org\/fundraiser\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venturing Out writes, &#8220;Originally written and performed Off-Broadway by four ex-offenders, The Castle interweaves their real life stories from childhood to crime to creating straight and sober lives filled with hope and courage. Through emotionally compelling monologues, the play conveys a powerful message about the challenges that ex-offenders face and societal treatment of people coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}