{"id":2774,"date":"2008-04-06T21:20:10","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T03:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/thoughts-of-a-circus-clown\/"},"modified":"2008-04-06T21:20:10","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T03:20:10","slug":"thoughts-of-a-circus-clown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/thoughts-of-a-circus-clown\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts of a Circus Clown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>These are thoughts and ideas from a circus clown. I was mesmerized by the passion of his voice as he spoke over a cup of coffee.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>To be a clown you must forget everything. To be a child again. As adults we have fixed opinions on everything, and decide what everything is and should be. A child has no knowledge of this. A clown will play over here, then get distracted and move over there &#8211; just like a child. A free form of unassociated thought.<\/p>\n<p>The clown must move each time as if it is the first time. Reacting new to the nuances of timing in the moment.<\/p>\n<p>A clown does not tell a story. The story is for the audience to tell. Each audience member has their own personal story to feel. And the clown must feel passion deep from his soul &#8211; he has no life in this world. It is all forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>That is the gift of the clown.<\/p>\n<p>***************************************<\/p>\n<p>Which reminds me of one of my father&#8217;s favorite stories:<\/p>\n<p>A man visits a doctor for depression. He says to the doctor: &#8220;I feel no happiness. No joy. I have only tears in this world. There is nothing that makes me feel the smile.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The doctor assures him: &#8220;Son, you must then go see Paggliacci, the most famous clown in all the world. He makes all t he people smile and remember that there is still love in this world. Go see Paggliacci and you will feel joy once again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man replies: &#8220;But doctor, I AM Paggliacci&#8230;..&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are thoughts and ideas from a circus clown. I was mesmerized by the passion of his voice as he spoke over a cup of coffee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,44],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-IK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}