{"id":455,"date":"2015-07-04T10:48:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T08:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/?p=455"},"modified":"2015-07-04T10:48:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T08:48:59","slug":"pool-needs-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/?p=455","title":{"rendered":"Pool needs fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pieter-dirk-uys.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-457\" src=\"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pieter-dirk-uys-300x140.jpg\" alt=\"pieter-dirk uys\" width=\"300\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pieter-dirk-uys-300x140.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pieter-dirk-uys.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pieter-Dirk Uys, we love you for many reasons, but none for African Times.<\/p>\n<p>There is a play here, but if the actors don&#8217;t tell us, how are we supposed to know what&#8217;s going on?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Get the actors to project 101, make them move downstage at least once, put in a bit of performance, some theatrics, breathe some fire into this pool of talent.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s horrible to see actors mompling, audiences nodding and, in a final insult in to this sacred space, where you have strutted and stridden in all your glory, punters, black and white, walking out.<\/p>\n<p>Please take it away and make it a play.<\/p>\n<p>Or give it to someone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pieter-Dirk Uys, we love you for many reasons, but none for African Times. There is a play here, but if the actors don&#8217;t tell us, how are we supposed to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/?p=455\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[40,649],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}