{"id":1820,"date":"2012-01-12T17:22:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T17:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2012-01-12T17:22:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T17:22:51","slug":"newspaper-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/12\/newspaper-acting\/","title":{"rendered":"Newspaper Acting!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/41\/T%C5%99eb%C3%AD%C4%8D_newspapers.jpg\/800px-T%C5%99eb%C3%AD%C4%8D_newspapers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"139\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\"><strong>Here&#8217;s a fun little activity my girls and I made up yesterday.\u00a0 Newspaper acting!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">I grabbed a copy of our local newspaper and a few junk mail flyers and challenged them to read lines in all different types of voices.\u00a0 For instance, Victoria read a sentence about a basketball game as if it were an ad for a horror movie.\u00a0 Anna read a sentence about a city council meeting as if it were heartbreaking news.\u00a0 I read a sentence about a budget proposal with terrible rage.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\"><strong>Want to play along?<\/strong>\u00a0 Just grab some really boring or random reading materials like newspapers, ads and magazines.\u00a0 Even homework pages would work!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\"><strong>Here&#8217;s some suggested voices and styles:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">As if it&#8217;s the funniest thing you&#8217;ve ever read<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">Like an action movie preview<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">In the voice of an evil genius<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">With great rage<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">As if you&#8217;re heartbroken<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">With a strong, funny accent<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">As if it&#8217;s a children&#8217;s book for very young kids<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">As if you&#8217;re super excited<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">With terrible sorrow<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">As if it&#8217;s a line in a romance movie<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">Like you&#8217;re terribly scared<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">We had so much fun doing this!\u00a0 We were all laughing like crazy and the girls have asked repeatedly to do some more.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">Happy Thursday!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a fun little activity my girls and I made up yesterday.\u00a0 Newspaper acting! I grabbed a copy of our local newspaper and a few junk mail flyers and challenged them to read lines in all different types of voices.\u00a0 For instance, Victoria read a sentence about a basketball game as if it were an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[22,84,103,160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}