{"id":2564,"date":"2015-06-19T08:56:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T15:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2015-06-18T21:23:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T04:23:13","slug":"ricky-doris-utterly-charming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/19\/ricky-doris-utterly-charming\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ricky &#038; Doris&#8221;: Utterly charming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And with puppets! Give yourself a treat and spend the next six minutes watching David Friedman\u2019s short film.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/38CPg9OS510?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> \u2028<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ricky Syers is an off-beat 50 year old street performer who found his calling as a puppeteer after a lifetime of manual labor. While performing in New York City\u2019s Washington Square Park, he met Doris Diether, an 86 year old community activist. They became friends and he made a marionette that looks just like her. Now she\u2019s joined his act and the two of them can often be seen performing together.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=38CPg9OS510\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; widows: 1;\">Ricky Syers is an offbeat 50-year-old street performer who found his calling as a puppeteer after a lifetime of manual labor. While performing in New York City\u2019s Washington Square Park, he met Doris Diether, an 86-year-old community activist. They became friends and he made a marionette that looks just like her. Now she\u2019s joined his act and the two of them can often be seen performing together.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And with puppets! Give yourself a treat and spend the next six minutes watching David Friedman\u2019s short film. \u2028 Ricky Syers is an off-beat 50 year old street performer who found his calling as a puppeteer after a lifetime of manual labor. While performing in New York City\u2019s Washington Square Park, he met Doris Diether, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2566,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}