{"id":2692,"date":"2013-09-25T22:01:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T11:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=2692"},"modified":"2013-09-25T22:02:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T11:02:48","slug":"the-rhyme-of-the-ancient-merino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2013\/09\/25\/the-rhyme-of-the-ancient-merino\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>The Rhyme of the Ancient Merino<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/74162577?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great to see the complete realisation of <a href=\"http:\/\/theartofdave.blogspot.com.au\/\">Dave Jones&#8217;s<\/a> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/74162577\">The Rhyme of the Ancient Merino<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At sail on a sea of wheat, the Ancient Merino and his aging theatre troupe struggle to eke out an existence in a hostile environment. When a the threat of modern technology looms they must adapt or fade into obscurity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The animation is an allegory for the story of &#8216;the 50 year history of the Arapiles Community Theatre, and the recent influx of new arrivals and the changes that has brought about&#8217;\u00a0in the small regional town of Natimuk, Victoria. Traditionally a service hub for the surrounding farming country, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Natimuk,_Victoria\">Natimuk<\/a> is also the closest town to Mount Arapiles, a mecca for rock climbers, so it is an interesting mix of farming people, climbers and an <a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?s=natimuk\">arts community<\/a>. In October it will again be the centre for the <a href=\"http:\/\/actnatimuk.com\/nati-frinj\">Nati Frinj<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I love the puppets in this; they&#8217;re life size and \u00a0made from bits of old farm machinery. And I like the little details like the snails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s great to see the complete realisation of Dave Jones&#8217;s The Rhyme of the Ancient Merino. At sail on a sea of wheat, the Ancient Merino and his aging theatre troupe struggle to eke out an existence in a hostile environment. When a the threat of modern technology looms they must adapt or fade into [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,30,4,14],"tags":[1324,695,1355,1365],"class_list":["post-2692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-creatures","category-puppetry","category-puppets","tag-nati-frinj","tag-natimuk","tag-puppetry","tag-puppets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-Hq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692","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=2692"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2698,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}