{"id":3622,"date":"2017-07-11T09:42:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T00:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2017-07-11T09:42:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T00:42:32","slug":"key-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/key-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find it fascinating how what person in a film or an organization holds it all together. It is often not the top billed star but a supporting role makes the good great. I remember the old question asked of the conductor, &#8220;What is the hardest part to play in the orchestra? Second fiddle.<\/p>\n<p>Here is just a start to get the conversation going.<\/p>\n<p>Get Smart (TV) \u00a0Edward Platte, the chief<\/p>\n<p>Star Wars \u00a0Alec Guinness, Obi Wan Kenobi<\/p>\n<p>Andy Griffith Show \u00a0Don Knotts, Barney Fife (my brother said this)<\/p>\n<p>Star Trek \u00a0James Doohan, Scottie<\/p>\n<p>Secretaries in almost any organization.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"3622\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"3622\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find it fascinating how what person in a film or an organization holds it all together. It is often not the top billed star but a supporting role makes the good great. I remember the old question asked of the conductor, &#8220;What is the hardest part to play in the orchestra? Second fiddle.<\/p>\n<p>Here is just a start to get the conversation going.<\/p>\n<p>Get Smart (TV) \u00a0Edward Platte, the chief<\/p>\n<p>Star Wars \u00a0Alec Guinness, Obi Wan Kenobi<\/p>\n<p>Andy Griffith Show \u00a0Don Knotts, Barney Fife (my brother said this)<\/p>\n<p>Star Trek \u00a0James Doohan, Scottie<\/p>\n<p>Secretaries in almost any organization.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"3622\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\"> <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i> <\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"3622\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\"> <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i> &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/key-roles\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[150],"class_list":["post-3622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-second-bananas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5805"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3623,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions\/3623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}