{"id":1088,"date":"2015-10-26T12:15:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T16:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2015-10-26T12:14:49","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T16:14:49","slug":"get-wicked-with-gregory-maguire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1088","title":{"rendered":"Get Wicked with Gregory Maguire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gregorymaguire.com\/gregory_home.gif\" width=\"109\" height=\"133\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregorymaguire.com\/\">Gregory Maguire<\/a> is the author of the bestselling novel <em>Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West<\/em>, a reimagining of the Wizard of Oz told from the Wicked Witch\u2019s point of view. It\u2019s also the basis for the very popular Broadway musical. He\u2019s out with a new novel, <em>After Alice<\/em>, his take on Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland. <a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Craft_WCBE_2015-10-28_mixdown.mp3\">Listen in to hear his take<\/a> on children&#8217;s literature designed to &#8220;save their little rotten souls&#8221; and religious value of a lethal peach pit.<\/p>\n<p>Catch him in town this Thursday, October 29, at the <a title=\"Thurber House\" href=\"http:\/\/thurberhouse.org\">Thurber House<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3852\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1088-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Craft_WCBE_2015-10-28_mixdown.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Craft_WCBE_2015-10-28_mixdown.mp3\">http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Craft_WCBE_2015-10-28_mixdown.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Craft_WCBE_2015-10-28_mixdown.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1088-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Craft_WCBE_2015-10-28_mixdown.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Craft_WCBE_2015-10-28_mixdown.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gregory Maguire is the author of the bestselling novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, a reimagining of the Wizard of Oz told from the Wicked Witch\u2019s point of view. It\u2019s also the basis &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1088\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,74],"tags":[267,265,266],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comedy","category-thurber-house-author","tag-after-alice","tag-gregory-maguire","tag-wicked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1095,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}