{"id":1512,"date":"2010-08-25T09:43:25","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T23:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2010-08-25T09:43:25","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T23:43:25","slug":"and-now-a-giant-robotic-sock-puppet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2010\/08\/25\/and-now-a-giant-robotic-sock-puppet\/","title":{"rendered":"And now, a giant robotic sock puppet!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikesimi.com\/detail%20pages\/Mr.%20Weekend%2001.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1514\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2010\/08\/25\/and-now-a-giant-robotic-sock-puppet\/mr-weekend\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Mr.-Weekend.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"300,347\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Jeffrey Machtig&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1276178486&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.01&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mr. Weekend\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;giant sock puppet&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Mr.-Weekend.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1514\" title=\"Mr. Weekend\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Mr.-Weekend.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Mr.-Weekend.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Mr.-Weekend-259x300.jpg 259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikesimi.com\/detail%20pages\/Mr.%20Weekend%2001.html\">Mr Weekend<\/a> is a giant (4.5 metre tall) robotic sock puppet made by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikesimi.com\">Michael Simi<\/a>. He is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikesimi.com\/video\/Mr.%20Weekend%20Video%202.mov\">fashioned over a large mechanical hand<\/a> from a defunct Michigan car factory and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikesimi.com\/video\/Mr.%20Weekend%20Video%201.mov\">is having some difficulty<\/a> adjusting to his change of job into the art world&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JudexJones\">@JudexJones<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Weekend is a giant (4.5 metre tall) robotic sock puppet made by Michael Simi. He is fashioned over a large mechanical hand from a defunct Michigan car factory and is having some difficulty adjusting to his change of job into the art world&#8230; (via @JudexJones)<\/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":[4,14,13],"tags":[965,351,1117],"class_list":["post-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puppetry","category-puppets","category-technology","tag-giant","tag-puppets-puppetry","tag-sock-puppet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-oo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512","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=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}