\u201cI talked to Jeremy on the phone, and he told me that he discovered that he had a very high level of mercury,\u201d Mamet said. \u201cSo my understanding is that he is leaving show business to pursue a career as a thermometer.\u201d<\/p>\n
-David Mamet, on Jeremy Piven’s abrupt departure<\/a> from Speed the Plow <\/em>due to illness “attributable to a high mercury account. (Seriously, kids).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cI talked to Jeremy on the phone, and he told me that he discovered that he had a very high level of mercury,\u201d Mamet said. \u201cSo my understanding is that he is leaving show business to pursue a career as a thermometer.\u201d -David Mamet, on Jeremy Piven’s abrupt departure from Speed the Plow due to … Continue reading Quote of the Day: David Mamet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2020,2018,1691,2019],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-david-mamet","tag-jeremy-piven","tag-quote-of-the-day","tag-speed-the-plow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}