{"id":83,"date":"2014-08-01T02:08:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T02:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2014-08-01T02:18:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T02:18:20","slug":"going-first-at-the-moth-grandslam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Going first at The Moth GrandSLAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-31-at-9.12.05-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-88\" src=\"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-31-at-9.12.05-PM-300x173.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-07-31 at 9.12.05 PM\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-31-at-9.12.05-PM-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-31-at-9.12.05-PM-1024x591.png 1024w, https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-31-at-9.12.05-PM.png 1029w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The piece of paper that I pulled out of The Moth bag had a squiggly number 1 and a sad face drawn on it. I suggested to the producers that drawing a smiley face might change people&#8217;s minds about going first. They tried to comfort me, and even quoted statistics about GrandSLAMS wherein the person who told first won (LA\u2026.that one time). I was milking it for the attention, but in all honesty I was happy to go first. I got to open the show. To set the tone. And I got to prove to myself and to 600+ audience members that I could do it up right. I think I delivered. Another bucket list item crossed off.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Taylor Tower: The Moth Twin Cities GrandSLAM, &quot;Fish Out of Water&quot;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/amoDq0uH7gI?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><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The piece of paper that I pulled out of The Moth bag had a squiggly number 1 and a sad face drawn on it. I suggested to the producers that drawing a smiley face might change people&#8217;s minds about going&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,5],"tags":[34,33,32,31],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-technique","tag-grand-slam","tag-live","tag-storytelling","tag-the-moth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}