{"id":1340,"date":"2010-02-27T16:42:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T06:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2010-06-02T10:15:28","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T00:15:28","slug":"australian-puppetry-links-and-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2010\/02\/27\/australian-puppetry-links-and-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian puppetry links and news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Towards the end of last year I added an <a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/australian-puppetry-links\/\">Australian puppetry links<\/a> page here. It&#8217;s listed above with the other site navigation tabs. It is a little more than links because there are brief notes with some of the entries.\u00a0 I also started up <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/OzPuppetry\">@OzPuppetry<\/a>,\u00a0 a Twitter account for Australian puppetry news, which you can see running real-time updates in the widget in the sidebar to the left.<\/p>\n<p>What prompted me to do both was the frustration I felt when I received an out-of-the-blue email asking my thoughts on the &#8216;puppetry industry, or lack thereof&#8217;, in Australia. Although in many ways I&#8217;m only on the periphery of the industry, I was aware of lots of exciting and diverse puppetry at the time, as I <a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Ozpuppetry.doc\">tried to convey (pdf)<\/a>. So I decided to write down publicly what I did know as links, and to track news as I saw it on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>But I should say straight up that I don&#8217;t know how long I&#8217;ll keep doing either.\u00a0 At the moment I&#8217;m enjoying it, but I don&#8217;t intend to tie myself to it if my interest wanes.\u00a0 Also, with many of the puppetry community here taking to FaceBook for notifications and networking, perhaps it is only a matter of time before it becomes redundant?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Towards the end of last year I added an Australian puppetry links page here. It&#8217;s listed above with the other site navigation tabs. It is a little more than links because there are brief notes with some of the entries.\u00a0 I also started up @OzPuppetry,\u00a0 a Twitter account for Australian puppetry news, which you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[476,1354,1355,1076,1365],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puppetry","category-puppets","tag-links","tag-news","tag-puppetry","tag-puppetry-australia","tag-puppets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-lC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}