{"id":118,"date":"2019-10-24T16:07:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T21:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/rebeck\/?page_id=118"},"modified":"2019-10-25T10:06:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T15:06:21","slug":"beginnings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/rebeck\/home\/the-papers\/beginnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Theresa Rebeck was born in Kenwood, on the outskirts of Cincinnati, Ohio, one of six children in a family once honored as \u201cFamily of the Year\u201d by the local congregations of the Mormon Church (<em>Cincinnati Post<\/em>, November 23, 1983). \u00a0Nominated by a neighbor, the Rebecks, a Catholic family, were cited for compassion, spiritual values, and community service.\u00a0 The\u00a0<em>Post\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0profile of the family quoted Joan Rebeck (Theresa\u2019s mother), who shared biographical insight related to her daughter \u2018s upbringing that is useful to current scholars. Mrs. Rebeck said her approach to child rearing \u201cemphasizes responsibility and letting them go.\u201d\u00a0 The article described the Rebeck children as \u201cindependent, active and outspoken about social justice, \u2026 [with] strong, though non-sanctimonius, spiritual and religious impulses.\u201d These are characteristics that resonate in reviews of Theresa Rebeck\u2019s much later creative works and non-fiction essays and articles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A treasure in the archive is this piece of juvenalia, \u201cDig and Doug.\u201d&nbsp; In this one-page story, the future playwright introduces themes of identity, trickery, subversive behavior, and situational uncertainty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM] Theresa Rebeck was born in Kenwood, on the outskirts of Cincinnati, Ohio, one of six children in a family once honored as \u201cFamily of the Year\u201d by the local congregations of the Mormon Church (Cincinnati Post, November 23, 1983). \u00a0Nominated by a neighbor, the Rebecks, a Catholic family, were cited for compassion, spiritual values, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":114,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-118","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/rebeck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/rebeck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/rebeck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/rebeck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/rebeck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/rebeck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/rebeck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions\/262"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/rebeck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/rebeck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}