{"id":41944,"date":"2018-10-03T15:53:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T22:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/?p=41944"},"modified":"2018-10-03T15:53:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T22:53:25","slug":"welcome-to-the-town-crier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/welcome-to-the-town-crier\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Town Crier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cA city\u2019s streets to me are like the wrinkles on an old face,\u201d wrote Margaret Bundy, the editor of Seattle\u2019s Town Crier from 1930 to 1934.<\/strong> \u201cThey depict the comedy and tragedy of the life that has passed there; in short, they reflect character.\u201d Town Hall has reflected the character of Seattle for 20 years. As a shared stage for Seattle\u2019s cultural producers and civic groups, Town Hall is where Seattle comes together\u2014to express our creativity, to listen and be heard, and to consider what sort of future we want to create together. And housed in a 102-year-old landmark building, we feel a deeply rooted connection to our town\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That said, welcome to our new blog, the Town Crier, harkening back to our past while propelling us forward.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The original Town Crier was a weekly magazine, published between 1910 and 1938. It focused on Seattle\u2019s news, arts, and culture. It represented a diversity of local voices, featuring artists, musicians, photographers, actors, and more, alongside reviews of local performances and discussions of local, national, and international events. The parallels to our own bustling, broad calendar are undeniable, and as we revitalize our century-old building (its set to reopen in March 2019!)\u2014giving new life to an old name feels especially appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Town Hall strives to capture today\u2019s voices, just as The Town Crier did a century ago, in fresh and illuminating ways. Through our blog, we\u2019ll profile Town Hall\u2019s speakers past and present\u2014visionaries and thought leaders in the arts, sciences, and civics. We\u2019ll interview Seattle\u2019s policy makers and culture shifters. We\u2019ll invite our community to contribute their own words and experiences. We\u2019ll have a little fun. We\u2019ll ask questions, and by doing so, hopefully we\u2019ll all learn something new. Because Town Hall is a place to reflect\u2014and inspire\u2014our best impulses: creativity, empathy, and the belief that we all deserve a voice.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to sharing this all with you in Town Hall\u2019s official blog, the Town Crier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original Town Crier was a weekly magazine, published between 1910 and 1938. It focused on Seattle\u2019s news, arts, and culture. It represented a diversity of local voices, featuring artists, musicians, photographers, actors, and more, alongside reviews of local performances and discussions of local, national, and international events. The parallels to our own bustling, broad calendar are undeniable, and as we revitalize our century-old building (its set to reopen in March 2019!)\u2014giving new life to an old name feels especially appropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcement","category-editorial","category-featured","category-town-crier"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}