{"id":277,"date":"2006-09-24T23:40:52","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T23:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=277"},"modified":"2008-01-02T13:43:24","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T03:43:24","slug":"giant-icelandic-marionette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2006\/09\/24\/giant-icelandic-marionette\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Icelandic marionette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-4532705709306889912&amp;q=giant+marionette&amp;hl=en\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/blog\/iceland.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a still from <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-4532705709306889912&amp;q=giant+marionette&amp;hl=en\">a video<\/a> of a giant marionette in Reykjavik, Iceland. It&#8217;s being operated by three helicopters! There are some other videos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_type=related&amp;search_query=Strange%20puppet%20Reykjavik%20Iceland%20big%20Giant%20phone%20camera%20WTF%20OMG%20SFW\">here<\/a>. I can&#8217;t find any other information about it, which is strange, but people seem to think it was being filmed as a viral ad for jeans. It makes me think of my favourite Roald Dhal book, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_BFG\"><em>The BFG<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a still from a video of a giant marionette in Reykjavik, Iceland. It&#8217;s being operated by three helicopters! There are some other videos here. I can&#8217;t find any other information about it, which is strange, but people seem to think it was being filmed as a viral ad for jeans. It makes me [&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":[8,4,14,17],"tags":[582,580,61,1355,1365,581,583],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-puppetry","category-puppets","category-video","tag-bfg","tag-iceland","tag-marionettes","tag-puppetry","tag-puppets","tag-reykjavik","tag-roald-dhal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-4t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","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=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}