{"id":212,"date":"2014-10-06T01:28:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T01:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyeforge.ca\/wv\/?p=13"},"modified":"2023-11-26T03:21:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T03:21:12","slug":"meet-garnet-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamsvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/06\/meet-garnet-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Who am I?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Stop acting so silly!&#8221; These four words, yelled at me in my youth by one or both of my parents, typically followed some &#8220;performance&#8221; of a silly voice. Sometimes it was a cartoon or TV character imitation, sometimes a voice of my own creation, but almost always in a public place, causing many heads to turn much to my parents chagrin, but to my great amusement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> Those &#8220;silly voices&#8221; led me to a career in broadcasting, where for over 15 years I have written, produced and voiced literally thousands of commercials, splitters, promos, ID&#8217;s, liners and well, you get the idea.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The same &#8220;silly voices&#8221; led me to a second career as a voice actor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I have been heard (and sometimes seen in animated form) on national campaigns for Hasbro, Parker Brothers, General Mills, Nabisco, Shelcore Toys, and more.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Although &#8220;non-silly&#8221; voiceover work, such as radio station imaging, narrations, and commercials are a big part of what I do, I still make with the &#8220;silly voices&#8221;. Sometimes for clients, sometimes to amuse my kids&#8230; hell, sometimes to amuse myself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The lesson learned?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t listen to my dad when he tells you to stop doing your Mr. Rogers impression in the checkout line at Sears.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Stop acting so silly!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-meet-garnet-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamsvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamsvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamsvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamsvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamsvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/williamsvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"http:\/\/williamsvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamsvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamsvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamsvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamsvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}