{"id":229,"date":"2006-05-11T22:54:49","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T22:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2008-01-04T12:38:26","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T02:38:26","slug":"spitting-image-puppets-of-genesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2006\/05\/11\/spitting-image-puppets-of-genesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Spitting Image puppets of Genesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/blog\/genesis.jpg\" alt=\"Genesis\" title=\"Genesis\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" \/>Speaking of the Man of Steel, here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=56QSkTnTTDg&amp;search=genesis%20land%20of%20confusion\">video of Land of Confusion<\/a>, by Phil Collins and Genesis, from 1986.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em\"><em>Oh Superman where are you now<\/em><br \/>\n<em>When everything&#8217;s gone wrong somehow<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The Man of Steel, these men of power<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Are losing control by the hour<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As well as the music and the political nature of the song, it&#8217;s also interesting because it features puppets of the guys in the band, and a host of others &#8211; Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Thatcher, Gadafi, the Pope, Michael Jackson (still black!) and so on. The puppets are instantly recognizable as being made by Roger Law and Peter Fluck from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spitting_Image\">Spitting Image<\/a>, the renowned British satirical puppet TV show from 1984 to  1996&#8217;s, and I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if many of the puppets in the video had been made firstly for Spitting Image episodes. Wikipedia has <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Land_of_Confusion#The_music_video\">information about the song and the video<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of the Man of Steel, here is a video of Land of Confusion, by Phil Collins and Genesis, from 1986. Oh Superman where are you now When everything&#8217;s gone wrong somehow The Man of Steel, these men of power Are losing control by the hour As well as the music and the political nature [&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":[353,4,14,37,17],"tags":[498,497,1355,1365,496,1368],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-puppetry","category-puppets","category-tv","category-video","tag-genesis","tag-land-of-confusion","tag-puppetry","tag-puppets","tag-spitting-image","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-3H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","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=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}