{"id":347,"date":"2024-05-22T21:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexmstein.com\/?p=347"},"modified":"2024-08-07T16:33:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:33:36","slug":"holding-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexmstein.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/22\/holding-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Holding Space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thanks to everyone who came out to see Tell-It&#8217;s Tenth Anniversary show!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a magical night, which I was happy to be a part of, even though I broke my right wrist a couple hours before the show.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what&#8217;s a broken wrist to storytelling?  It&#8217;s not like I had to strum a guitar or play keyboards or bang on drums.  So the show went on and I went to Urgent Care the next day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yup, definitely broken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So&#8230; after navigating the hellscape that is our healthcare industry, I&#8217;m in a cast for five weeks.  The doctor says the break is clean and should heal fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video of that performance&#8230; as a bonus I&#8217;m wearing a Black Guy Fawkes t-shirt (check out his music when you get a chance, it&#8217;s great).  As a second bonus, if you look closely, you can see the moment where I realize I don&#8217;t have enough strength in my right hand to light the candle and switch to the left hand.  And as a third bonus, there&#8217;s a singalong to a song my father used to sing when I was a kid.  About half the crowd knew the song.   (Amazing!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alex Stein: Holding Space - Tell It! True stories and personal essays presents THE BIRTHDAY SHOW!\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1H12Yes5jBI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to everyone who came out to see Tell-It&#8217;s Tenth Anniversary show! It was a magical night, which I was happy to be a part of, even though I broke my right wrist a couple hours before the show. But what&#8217;s a broken wrist to storytelling? It&#8217;s not like I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexmstein.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexmstein.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexmstein.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexmstein.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexmstein.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alexmstein.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/alexmstein.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexmstein.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexmstein.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexmstein.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}