{"id":72,"date":"2005-02-13T19:08:16","date_gmt":"2005-02-13T19:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2015-07-11T14:37:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T03:37:08","slug":"a-puppet-production-of-the-mousehole-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2005\/02\/13\/a-puppet-production-of-the-mousehole-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"A puppet  production of &#8216;The Mousehole Cat&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By chance I discovered that the British puppetry company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.puppetcraft.dsl.pipex.com\/\">Puppet<em>craft<\/em><\/a> have done a puppet show of The Mousehole Cat, one of the books by Nicola Bayley that I mentioned in my previous post.  These are their carved wooden puppets of the legendary Tom Bawcock and his cat,<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spiritsdancing.com\/blog\/mousehole.jpg\" alt=\"Mousehole\" title=\"Mousehole\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>who &#8216;saved the villagers of Mousehole from starvation by putting to sea in a fearsome gale on the day before Christmas eve and catching seven sorts of fish, enough for everyone to make and enjoy a life-saving, local delicacy &#8211; starry gazey pie&#8217;. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.puppetcraft.dsl.pipex.com\/mousehole.html\">pictures and reviews<\/a> on their site, make it look like a great production, and they have a recipe for starry gazey pie, too. Apparently Tom Bawcock&#8217;s Eve is still <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/cornwall\/art\/artists\/mousehole_lights\/mousehole_lights.shtml\">celebrated<\/a> in Mousehole on December 23rd each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By chance I discovered that the British puppetry company Puppetcraft have done a puppet show of The Mousehole Cat, one of the books by Nicola Bayley that I mentioned in my previous post. These are their carved wooden puppets of the legendary Tom Bawcock and his cat, who &#8216;saved the villagers of Mousehole from starvation [&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":[8,4,14,33],"tags":[1359,175,1355,1365],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-puppetry","category-puppets","category-theatre","tag-books","tag-nicola-bayley","tag-puppetry","tag-puppets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-1a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","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=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3171,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/3171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}