{"id":210,"date":"2018-10-09T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2018\/10\/09\/30-years-ago-1988\/"},"modified":"2018-10-09T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T15:45:00","slug":"30-years-ago-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2018\/10\/09\/30-years-ago-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"30 years ago &#8211; 1988"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeepers. It just dawned on me that, 30 years ago, I graduated from Western Kentucky University, worked my first summer at the Williamstown Theater Festival and then started as a PR assistant at Hartford Stage in Hartford, Connecticut, which had just opened <i>A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream<\/i>, directed by Mark Lamos and which featured a very young and often shirtless Bradley Whitford. And I was a size 8.<\/p>\n<p>It was an extraordinary year. I loved my&nbsp;senior year of college and I loved my first post-university jobs. I felt like the luckiest girl alive.<\/p>\n<p>What a year it was (links go to photos):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jaynecravens\/4815889150\/in\/album-72157624427452693\/\">I wrung in the new year outside of London<\/a> with my best friend from WKU, Carmen, and my new best friend from the UK, Louise.<\/li>\n<li>In the Spring, I was part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jaynecravens\/32355655733\/in\/album-72157624427452693\/\">first massive protest<\/a> that my university had seen in more than a decade &#8211; students protested the WKU President, Kern Alexander, install faculty editors at the WKU student newspaper, the <i>College Heights Herald<\/i>, and the WKU yearbook, the <i>Talisman<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>In May, I&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jaynecravens\/36980503822\/in\/album-72157624427452693\/\">graduated<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jaynecravens\/7137316941\/in\/album-72157624427452693\/\">stuck around town for a month with friends<\/a>, then closed my bank account in Bowling Green and moved away, not knowing that Domino&#8217;s Pizza hadn&#8217;t cashed my last check I wrote to them and they swore out a bench warrant for my arrest and my former flatmate, still in town for the summer theater, had to take care of it.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>I drove from Kentucky to New England and back to Kentucky twice, having never seen much of the USA at all until then.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Over the summer, I helped a fledgling little show called <i>Entertainment Tonight<\/i> get interviews at Williamstown, which they featured on TV for a full week.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Sigourney Weaver said my name and Tony Goldwyn rocked his baby while doing a press interview in my office.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>I met Christopher Reeve and he hated me and two years later, he STILL hated me.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Nikos Psacharopoulos would hang up on me if he called and I said my boss wasn&#8217;t in the office.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Jon Polito and I discussed both being Capricorns.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>I worked with possibly the most talented, dedicated, fun staff I ever have in my life &#8211; at Hartford Stage (though the staff at the UN my first two years run a very, very close second)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nGood times!<\/p>\n<p>Many of the people I knew in that year, and met in that year, are my still friends to this day.<\/p>\n<p>30 years ago? Sometimes it seems like a million, sometimes it seems like yesterday.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeepers. It just dawned on me that, 30 years ago, I graduated from Western Kentucky University, worked my first summer at the Williamstown Theater Festival and then started as a PR assistant at Hartford Stage in Hartford, Connecticut, which had just opened A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream, directed by Mark Lamos and which featured a very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}