{"id":19,"date":"2004-03-17T15:58:34","date_gmt":"2004-03-17T15:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2007-12-02T13:57:53","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T03:57:53","slug":"gardner-puppet-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2004\/03\/17\/gardner-puppet-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardner Puppet Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Victoria people are doing individual things to celebrate World Puppetry Day this year. Lorrie Gardner, Australian president of UNIMA, has received some coverage in a local paper for the day and her plans to celebrate it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Maroondah Leader, March 16, 2004 : Puppeteers have own special day<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ringwood East puppeteer, Lorrie Gardner, says next week&#8217;s World Puppetry Day will be a celebration of puppetry and its contribution to the arts. Gardner, the Australian president of the Union International de la Marionette, said the day aimed to raise awareness of puppetry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The idea is to call attention to the art form of puppetry to the general public,&#8221; Gardner said.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner, who has been involved in the field for more than 30 years, said the world puppetry day would grow. &#8220;This is only the second year we&#8217;ve had the World Puppetry Day, so it&#8217;s just getting started,&#8221; Gardner said. &#8220;Last year, unfortunately on the day, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritsdancing.com\/puppets\/pictures\/picsjohn.html\">we went to war<\/a> so it overshadowed it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the event, Gardner will perform on Monday, March 22 at Catjump Pre-school, Doncaster. For further details on World Puppetry Day phone 9870 8998.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Victoria people are doing individual things to celebrate World Puppetry Day this year. Lorrie Gardner, Australian president of UNIMA, has received some coverage in a local paper for the day and her plans to celebrate it: Maroondah Leader, March 16, 2004 : Puppeteers have own special day &#8220;Ringwood East puppeteer, Lorrie Gardner, says next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[4,14,5],"tags":[1355,1365,62],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puppetry","category-puppets","category-unima","tag-puppetry","tag-puppets","tag-world-puppetry-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","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=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}