{"id":365,"date":"2016-12-10T23:37:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T23:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.americanveteransaid.com\/?p=365"},"modified":"2016-12-10T23:37:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T23:37:49","slug":"veterans-struggles-dramatized-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanveteransaid.com\/newblog\/veterans-struggles-dramatized-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Struggles Dramatized in Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Veteran&#8217;s Day, the Hollywood American Legion Post 43 in Los Angeles Liberty Theater presented the world premiere of Everything In Between, a play dealing with four generations of vets and their unique difficulties after coming home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Invisible injuries, often with devastating consequences, follow our soldiers back home. I have always had a story in my head about different generations of Veterans, from all branches of the military, coming together to help one another heal. It&#8217;s about the human condition we all share and the specific condition that veterans share, along with the hope that things are somehow going to get better,&#8221; explains Rebecca Stahl, playwright.<\/p>\n<p>The American Legion was formed in 1919 to give all veterans a place to congregate together in fellowship as well as memorial. The Hollywood post raised funds with the help of A-listers Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Ida Lupino Clark Gable, Rudolph Valentino, Clara Bow, Mary Pickford, and the Marx Brothers who attended their boxing matches along side blue-collar patrons. The building described as &#8220;military in character and a dignified solution to the problem of combining a memorial and a clubhouse,&#8221; by the Los Angeles Times was opened on July 4, 1929.<\/p>\n<p>The play was produced by the community veterans&#8217; organization, Hollywood Post 43 of the American Legion. The cast, crew, and design team include U.S. military veterans.<\/p>\n<p>Everything In Between opened on November 11th (Veteran&#8217;s Day) and ran through December 11, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Veteran&#8217;s Day, the Hollywood American Legion Post 43 in Los Angeles Liberty Theater presented the world premiere of Everything In Between, a play dealing with four generations of vets and their unique difficulties after coming home. &#8220;Invisible injuries, often with devastating consequences, follow our soldiers back home. I have always had a story in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[25,95,2],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","category-veterans-aid","tag-ptsd","tag-theatre","tag-veterans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanveteransaid.com\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanveteransaid.com\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanveteransaid.com\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanveteransaid.com\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanveteransaid.com\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americanveteransaid.com\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanveteransaid.com\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanveteransaid.com\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanveteransaid.com\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}