{"id":1392,"date":"2010-04-20T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebzbproductions.ebzb.org\/life-is-so-good-compliment\/"},"modified":"2010-04-20T23:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T23:15:00","slug":"life-is-so-good-compliment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/2010\/04\/20\/life-is-so-good-compliment\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Is So Good: Compliment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;century gothic&quot;;\"><\/span><br \/>\nThe Paramount did more to improve race relations in Goldsboro, than any focus group or town hall meeting has in at least 5 years.&nbsp; Thank you to Sherry Archibald and the Paramount for bringing \u201cLife is So Good\u201d to our town.&nbsp; The two man play chronicled the life of Richard Glaubman, a man who learned to read at the age of 98.&nbsp; The play was a poignant, yet humorous reflection of the history of racial&nbsp;<em>inequality<\/em>&nbsp;in America.&nbsp; Ironically, through a weaving in and out of over 20 characters throughout the play, Mike Wiley and David zum Brunnen provide us a glimpse of true racial&nbsp;<em>equality<\/em>; even if only on that stage.&nbsp; They each played white and black characters and were critical and sympathetic to both.&nbsp; It transformed them from a white man and a black man into actors, with no affiliation of skin color.&nbsp; The story they told was not black history or white history, but American history.&nbsp; And as I looked around the audience, the equality that began on the stage was contagious to us all, as we became not white people and black people but just people; just good people, enjoying an evening at the Paramount, all together.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n-MATTHEW L. YOUNG,&nbsp;Lt&nbsp;Col, USAFR,&nbsp;Seymour&nbsp;Johnson AFB, NC<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>EbzB Productions &#8211; Your World Is Our Stage!<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.ebzb.org<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Paramount did more to improve race relations in Goldsboro, than any focus group or town hall meeting has in at least 5 years.&nbsp; Thank you to Sherry Archibald and the Paramount for bringing \u201cLife is So Good\u201d to our town.&nbsp; The two man play chronicled the life of Richard Glaubman, a man who learned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,31,47,61,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compliment","category-david-zum-brunnen","category-life-is-so-good","category-recommendation","category-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}