{"id":153629,"date":"2019-12-09T07:13:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T12:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=153629"},"modified":"2019-12-09T07:13:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T12:13:38","slug":"r-i-p-caroll-spinney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=153629","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Caroll Spinney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Big-Bird-Sabotage.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Big-Bird-Sabotage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"970\" height=\"545\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-153630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Big-Bird-Sabotage.jpg 970w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Big-Bird-Sabotage-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Big-Bird-Sabotage-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Big-Bird-Sabotage-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Big-Bird-Sabotage-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nCaroll Spinney, legendary puppeteer and creator of the characters Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street, has died at the age of 85. I knew this day was coming, of course. But I still was not prepared. <\/p>\n<p>A couple of years ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/i-am-big-bird-the-caroll-spinney-story-2015\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">I reviewed the wonderful documentary <i>I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story<\/i><\/a> for Ebert. <\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace. It&#8217;s been a life of service. Amazing artist. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caroll Spinney, legendary puppeteer and creator of the characters Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street, has died at the age of 85. I knew this day was coming, of course. But I still was not prepared. A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=153629\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,23,31],"tags":[2493],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153631,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153629\/revisions\/153631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}