{"id":1886,"date":"2026-04-29T21:27:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mpac.509j.net\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2026-04-29T21:27:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:27:32","slug":"mhs-theatre-department-presents-these-shining-lives-may-8-9-10-15-and-16-see-times-below","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mpac.509j.net\/?p=1886","title":{"rendered":"MHS Theatre Department presents &#8220;These Shining Lives,&#8221; May 8, 9, 10, 15 and 16 (See times below)&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>These Shining Lives<\/em> chronicles the true story of four women in the 1920s who worked for the Radium Dial Company in Ottawa, Illinois, painting watch dials with radium paint. The play chronicles their journey from empowerment to betrayal, showcasing the dangers these women faced in their workplace and highlighting the wider lack of concern companies had for protecting the health of their employees. As the women fall ill from radium poisoning, they refuse to be cast aside, fighting corporate greed and negligence, ultimately fighting for justice and changing worker safety laws forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mpac.509j.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/04\/TSL-Poster-Corrected-791x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1893\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mpac.509j.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/04\/TSL-Poster-Corrected-791x1024.png 791w, https:\/\/mpac.509j.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/04\/TSL-Poster-Corrected-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/mpac.509j.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/04\/TSL-Poster-Corrected-768x994.png 768w, https:\/\/mpac.509j.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/04\/TSL-Poster-Corrected-600x776.png 600w, https:\/\/mpac.509j.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/04\/TSL-Poster-Corrected-1187x1536.png 1187w, https:\/\/mpac.509j.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/04\/TSL-Poster-Corrected.png 1545w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>May 8th, 9th &amp; 15th at 7pm  <strong>\u00b7 <\/strong> May 9th, *10th &amp; 16th at 2pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Special Mother&#8217;s Day Performance May 10th &#8211; All Mothers are half price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These Shining Lives chronicles the true story of four women in the 1920s who worked for the Radium Dial Company in Ottawa, Illinois, painting watch dials with radium paint. The play chronicles their journey from empowerment to betrayal, showcasing the dangers these women faced in their workplace and highlighting the wider lack of concern companies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mpac.509j.net\/?p=1886\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MHS Theatre Department presents &#8220;These Shining Lives,&#8221; May 8, 9, 10, 15 and 16 (See times below)&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-05-17 07:00:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpac.509j.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpac.509j.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpac.509j.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpac.509j.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpac.509j.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mpac.509j.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1894,"href":"https:\/\/mpac.509j.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions\/1894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpac.509j.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpac.509j.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpac.509j.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}