{"id":2243,"date":"2012-03-06T21:42:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T10:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=2243"},"modified":"2012-03-06T21:57:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T10:57:53","slug":"giant-boy-puppet-at-the-rugby-world-cup-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2012\/03\/06\/giant-boy-puppet-at-the-rugby-world-cup-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant boy puppet at the 2011 Rugby World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HGRULCpUV7I?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"369\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I still take an interest in giant marionettes that operate roughly along the same lines as the <a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?s=royal+de+luxe\">Royal de Luxe<\/a> ones. Tonight I happened across this giant boy puppet called Junior, \u00a0New Zealand&#8217;s Biggest Fan, which took part in the festivities during last years Rugby World Cup in\u00a0New Zealand. There&#8217;s always\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/stories\/AK1109\/S00153\/larger-than-life-puppet-is-star-of-festivities.htm\">an invented backstory<\/a>\u00a0, however sketchy, for these puppets. Junior was made by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bombprops.co.nz\/junior.html\">Bomb Props<\/a>\u00a0who have released this\u00a0making of video:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IIC_FWsMKyM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"369\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I still take an interest in giant marionettes that operate roughly along the same lines as the Royal de Luxe ones. Tonight I happened across this giant boy puppet called Junior, \u00a0New Zealand&#8217;s Biggest Fan, which took part in the festivities during last years Rugby World Cup in\u00a0New Zealand. There&#8217;s always\u00a0an invented backstory\u00a0, however [&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":[4,14,15],"tags":[1065,1025,647,1244,1355,1365,1245],"class_list":["post-2243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puppetry","category-puppets","category-street-theatre","tag-giant-puppets","tag-influence-of-royal-de-luxe","tag-marionette","tag-new-zealand","tag-puppetry","tag-puppets","tag-rugby-world-cup-2011"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-Ab","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243","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=2243"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2250,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions\/2250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}