{"id":35,"date":"2013-12-17T13:20:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T19:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1971classnews\/?p=35"},"modified":"2014-05-30T13:45:43","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T18:45:43","slug":"nancy-steele-brokaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/2013\/12\/17\/nancy-steele-brokaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Steele Brokaw &#8217;71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fertile Ground, which was a joint Prairie Fire Theatre and IWU opera production a few years back has been picked up to be showcased by the Forth Worth Opera.\u00a0Fertile Ground is the story (sort of an opera\/musical hybrid) of a Central Illinois farm family. David Vayo composed it and I wrote the libretto, a process that was a three year commission and was also a wonderfully rich collaboration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2013\/12\/Brokaw-71.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-39\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2013\/12\/Brokaw-71-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Brokaw 71\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fertile Ground, which was a joint Prairie Fire Theatre and IWU opera production a few years back has been picked up to be showcased by the Forth Worth Opera.\u00a0Fertile Ground is the story (sort of an opera\/musical hybrid) of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/2013\/12\/17\/nancy-steele-brokaw\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":478,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}