{"id":118,"date":"2008-10-19T23:04:46","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T03:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/10\/19\/previous-action-act-1\/"},"modified":"2008-10-19T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T03:04:46","slug":"previous-action-act-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/10\/19\/previous-action-act-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Previous Action &#8211; Act 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Paul Kappel<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(in approximate cronological order)<\/p>\n<p>-Willy&#8217;s brother Ben went into the jungle when he was seventeen and came out rich when he was twenty-one.<br \/>\n-Willy accepts a job as a salesman.<br \/>\n-Willy decides not to take a trip with Ben to Alaska.<br \/>\n-Willy promises that he will start his own business and spend more time with his family.<br \/>\n-Biff stole a number of basketballs from Bill Oliver.<br \/>\n-Biff nearly flunks math class and has poor grades in school, but Willy encourages him to use his personality and looks.<br \/>\n-Happy moved out of the home and lives in an apartment, drives his own car, and has lots of women.<br \/>\n-The company which Willy works for as a salesman reduces his pay to straight commission.<br \/>\n-Biff lost his job again, this is something which happens almost yearly in the spring.<br \/>\n-Biff sent a letter home saying that he would be returning soon.<br \/>\n-Willy was out driving and had to return home because he could not keep his mind on driving and was dreaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Paul Kappel (in approximate cronological order) -Willy&#8217;s brother Ben went into the jungle when he was seventeen and came out rich when he was twenty-one. -Willy accepts a job as a salesman. -Willy decides not to take a trip with Ben to Alaska. -Willy promises that he will start his own business and spend &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/10\/19\/previous-action-act-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Previous Action &#8211; Act 1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":834,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[776],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hodge-1-given-circumstances"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/834"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}