{"id":443,"date":"2008-02-04T07:20:30","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T21:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2008\/02\/04\/waving-his-sweat-stick\/"},"modified":"2008-02-04T07:20:30","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T21:20:30","slug":"waving-his-sweat-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2008\/02\/04\/waving-his-sweat-stick\/","title":{"rendered":"Waving his sweat stick"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hippo<\/p>\n

Of course, I’m wondering about the making of the 90 kilogram hippo suit, with the head cast apparently made from a real hippopotamus, and finished in fibreglass! But the whole story, with pictures<\/a>, is pure laughter. (Don’t miss the video<\/a>) Favourite quote:<\/p>\n

He got close enough to them but they passed by him on the opposite side to the one on which he was waving his sweat stick.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What exactly was he was going to do with his sweat stick, tickle under their arms perhaps? And can’t you imagine the advertising for (lets hope synthetic) wild hippo sweat sunblock? And will we find some baggage handlers careering around<\/a> in the hippo suit one day? :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of course, I’m wondering about the making of the 90 kilogram hippo suit, with the head cast apparently made from a real hippopotamus, and finished in fibreglass! But the whole story, with pictures, is pure laughter. (Don’t miss the video) Favourite quote: He got close enough to them but they passed by him on the […]<\/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":[30,19,4,14],"tags":[828,200,827,1355,1365,829],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creatures","category-fun","category-puppetry","category-puppets","tag-decoy","tag-funny","tag-hippo-suit","tag-puppetry","tag-puppets","tag-sweat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-79","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","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=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}