{"id":67,"date":"2001-11-07T15:15:55","date_gmt":"2001-11-07T22:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/?p=67"},"modified":"2001-11-07T15:15:55","modified_gmt":"2001-11-07T22:15:55","slug":"actor-in-wonderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"Actor in wonderland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Toronto Sun<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Actor in wonderland <\/strong><br \/>\nBy CLAIRE BICKLEYYou&#8217;d expect Martin Donovan to be disappointed by the cancellation after a mere two episodes of his ABC-TV series, mental hospital drama Wonderland. And you&#8217;d be right. But he wasn&#8217;t as surprised by that harsh outcome as you might assume.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t totally shocked. This profession is 90% discouragement. It&#8217;s 90% rejection and disappointment and bad reviews or people dismissing your work or ignoring it. It&#8217;s really not even 10% of the time where you get the rewards,&#8221; Donovan told me a few days ago, on the set of Lifetime movie Custody of The Heart.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Which is why you have to do it for yourself. You have to really love the work. It has to be a very personal thing. If you&#8217;re relying solely on outside (feedback), which I&#8217;m not saying you don&#8217;t need, but if that&#8217;s all you&#8217;re looking for, you&#8217;re going to be a really bitter, disappointed person.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto Sun Actor in wonderland By CLAIRE BICKLEYYou&#8217;d expect Martin Donovan to be disappointed by the cancellation after a mere two episodes of his ABC-TV series, mental hospital drama Wonderland. And you&#8217;d be right. But he wasn&#8217;t as surprised by that harsh outcome as you might assume. &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t totally shocked. This profession is 90% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}