{"id":93,"date":"2014-11-21T01:30:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T01:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2014-11-21T01:41:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T01:41:58","slug":"banned-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"Banned for life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In September 2013, four days after I moved to Minneapolis, I put my name in the hat at The Moth StorySLAM in St. Paul. They pulled nine out of ten names and none of them were mine. Finally, the last name&#8230;..WAS ME. I think I nailed it. I won and that&#8217;s how I made it into the GrandSLAM this June and how I got noticed by the big wigs in NY and got to tell a MainStage story in Denver. Storytelling dream-making. Do you think Powell&#8217;s will &#8220;unban&#8221; me now?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"St. Paul Moth StorySLAM: Rules\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2y3bJ7tb4LE?list=UUcZzOtXHXP1IL6qNvU4P0FA\" 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September 2013, four days after I moved to Minneapolis, I put my name in the hat at The Moth StorySLAM in St. Paul. They pulled nine out of ten names and none of them were mine. Finally, the last&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-technique","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","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=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}