{"id":6211,"date":"2012-03-24T20:59:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T20:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=6211"},"modified":"2012-03-24T21:02:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T21:02:20","slug":"because-a-puppet-really-is-a-somebody-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/03\/because-a-puppet-really-is-a-somebody-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Because a puppet really is a somebody else&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>From the moment Kermit came out, there were really two people onstage. Steve played around with this a bit. Since he was speaking before an audience of mostly puppeteers, Steve started off by saying that he wasn\u2019t going to split himself and pretend that Kermit was actually here. Kermit lowered his head in sadness at this news, which got a big laugh. Steve then referred to Kermit as being a puppet rather than an actual person; Kermit just stared at Steve with that irritated &#8220;squishy face&#8221; look that gets me every time. Kermit also introduced Steve as his puppet, which drew a big laugh from the audience. So, despite a common understanding of the art and skill of puppetry, Kermit was a real live person for everyone in the room, which is a tremendous testament to the &#8220;consciousness&#8221; of the character that Steve spoke about earlier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Steve Whitmire and Kermit the frog (via <a href=\"http:\/\/themuppetmindset.blogspot.co.uk\/2011\/07\/evening-with-steve-whitmire-and-kermit.html\">Muppet Mindset<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the moment Kermit came out, there were really two people onstage. Steve played around with this a bit. Since he was speaking before an audience of mostly puppeteers, Steve started off by saying that he wasn\u2019t going to split himself and pretend that Kermit was actually here. Kermit lowered his head in sadness at this news, which got a big laugh. Steve then referred to Kermit as being a puppet rather than an actual person; Kermit just stared at Steve with that irritated &#8220;squishy face&#8221; look that gets me every time. Kermit also introduced Steve as his puppet, which<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,3],"tags":[3583,3585,3586,3584],"class_list":["post-6211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-personal-thoughts-and-messages","tag-kermit-the-frog","tag-muppet","tag-puppeteering","tag-steve-whitmire","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1Cb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}