{"id":11169,"date":"2022-05-12T12:35:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=11169"},"modified":"2024-08-28T13:26:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T17:26:56","slug":"things-to-read-on-creed-bratton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2022\/05\/12\/things-to-read-on-creed-bratton\/","title":{"rendered":"Things to Read: On Creed Bratton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just can\u2019t seem to get on a regular schedule for sharing fun things I run across in my internet travels. So I\u2019ve decided to scrap the periodic link-heavy posts and move towards sharing interesting pieces individually, as I run across them. That means more content for you, dear readers!<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s kick it off with this wonderful profile of Creed Bratton. In recent years I\u2019ve learned plenty about his life. I don\u2019t think I knew anything about his \u201creal\u201d life until well after <em>The Office<\/em> ended its run on NBC. As I\u2019ve learned more about his life, it\u2019s fun to watch reruns and see how many aspects of his character come out of his true experiences.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He\u2019s lived three lives, had five names. At least. He\u2019s most well-known, of course, for playing the seedy, scheming octogenarian, with whom he shares a name, on the American version of the television show <em>The Office<\/em>. He turned a non-speaking background role into a cult-favorite character on one of the most successful comedies of all time, but that\u2019s not the story. So much came before that. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/entertainment\/music\/a39662813\/creed-bratton-the-office-grass-roots-interview-2022\/\">Creed Bratton Has a Story to Tell<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just can\u2019t seem to get on a regular schedule for sharing fun things I run across in my internet travels. So I\u2019ve decided to scrap the periodic link-heavy posts and move towards sharing interesting pieces individually, as I run across them. That means more content for you, dear readers! Let\u2019s kick it off with this wonderful profile of Creed Bratton. In recent years I\u2019ve learned plenty about his life. I don\u2019t think I knew anything about his \u201creal\u201d life until well after The Office ended its run on NBC. As I\u2019ve learned more about his life, it\u2019s fun to watch reruns and see how many aspects of his character come out of his true experiences. He\u2019s lived three lives, had five names. At least. He\u2019s most well-known, of course, for playing the seedy, scheming octogenarian, with whom he shares a name, on the American version of the television show The Office. He turned a non-speaking background role into a cult-favorite character on one of the most successful comedies of all time, but that\u2019s not the story. So much came before that. Creed Bratton Has a Story to Tell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-11169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11170,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11169\/revisions\/11170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}