{"id":15984,"date":"2025-08-11T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15984"},"modified":"2025-08-07T23:40:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T04:40:33","slug":"one-stoplight-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2025\/08\/one-stoplight-play\/","title":{"rendered":"One-stoplight play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Community members put on the play &#8220;One Stoplight Town&#8221; at the Wieting Theatre in Toledo on July 12.<a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/spotlight-on-the-stoplight\"> It was a good play.<\/a> Perhaps the most emotional part for me, though, was learning that the lead was played by someone who got back into acting two decades after his last time on stage &#8230; when he was a senior at South Tama in 2004.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/spotlight-on-the-stoplight\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15985\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/substack_toledolight.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/substack_toledolight.jpg 600w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/substack_toledolight-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/substack_toledolight-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community members put on the play &#8220;One Stoplight Town&#8221; at the Wieting Theatre in Toledo on July 12. It was a good play. Perhaps the most emotional part for me, though, was learning that the lead was played by someone &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2025\/08\/one-stoplight-play\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tama-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15986,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984\/revisions\/15986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}