{"id":2967,"date":"2025-09-07T18:27:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T18:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2025-09-07T18:27:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T18:27:28","slug":"persuasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/?p=2967","title":{"rendered":"Persuasion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Austenmania continues to sweep the country and DD are staging one of her best-loved plays this autumn.<br>Persuasion is the story of Anne Elliot&#8217;s undimming love for naval officer Wentworth. She was persuaded to give him up eight years ago when he was a penniless naval officer, but how he&#8217;s back, a gilded war hero and all the other girls want a piece of him.<br>Can Anne&#8217;s love endure and be fulfilled?<br>Find out at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DorchesterArts1?__tn__=-]K*F\">Dorchester Arts<\/a>\u00a0on Friday and Saturday, November 21 and 22. Performances are at 7.30pm on both days with a 2pm matinee on the Saturday. Pop into the arts centre or go online to find out more and buy tickets<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/pw\/AP1GczMcMWpIgKKYr9Y_ro58MpfOHsavlDOhI5OkyT1FdayKFCg__bu2a7WJxblxd0yigkIaeMTLFugzoXE9s_xvFq29hu7JGvqX4O-B9mGHvATOeAXfkjw=w1920-h1080\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austenmania continues to sweep the country and DD are staging one of her best-loved plays this autumn.Persuasion is the story of Anne Elliot&#8217;s undimming love for naval officer Wentworth. She was persuaded to give him up eight years ago when he was a penniless naval officer, but how he&#8217;s back, a gilded war hero and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/?p=2967\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Persuasion<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5MaE2-LR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2968,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions\/2968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}