{"id":239,"date":"2006-05-26T13:14:54","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T13:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=239"},"modified":"2008-01-01T15:44:42","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T05:44:42","slug":"welfare-state-international-comes-to-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2006\/05\/26\/welfare-state-international-comes-to-an-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Welfare State International comes to an end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Fox, the artistic director of the renowned celebratory street theatre company, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.welfare-state.org\/\">Welfare State International<\/a>  &#8211; &#8216;eyes on stalks, not bums on seats&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.welfare-state.org\/downloads\/whoseculture.pdf\">explains<\/a> how bureacracy kills the creative spirit, and why he is going solo.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8216;The final straw? The &#8216;hot work&#8217; permit for a bonfire in a field.<br \/>\nHad we swept the floor, and were the overhead sprinklers working?&#8217; <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Welfare State came to an end on April Fools&#8217; Day this year, after 38 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Fox, the artistic director of the renowned celebratory street theatre company, Welfare State International &#8211; &#8216;eyes on stalks, not bums on seats&#8221; &#8211; explains how bureacracy kills the creative spirit, and why he is going solo. &#8216;The final straw? The &#8216;hot work&#8217; permit for a bonfire in a field. Had we swept the floor, [&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":[4,14,15],"tags":[511,510,1355,1365,1366,509],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puppetry","category-puppets","category-street-theatre","tag-celebration","tag-john-fox","tag-puppetry","tag-puppets","tag-street-theatre","tag-welfare-state-international"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-3R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","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=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}