{"id":5694,"date":"2024-07-13T11:36:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T11:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/?p=5694"},"modified":"2024-07-13T11:36:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T11:36:42","slug":"tales-from-the-town-179-puppet-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/2024\/07\/13\/tales-from-the-town-179-puppet-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales From The Town #179: Puppet Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The puppet show will be appearing at various locations around the town throughout the summer. Performances last for approximately 45 minutes and entry is free. The puppets are 8 to 12 inches high and made from varnished wood, and move across the stage in ways variously described as &#8220;creepy&#8221; (Ethel, aged 9), &#8220;weird&#8221; (Claire, aged 9), &#8220;mesmerising&#8221; (Tina, aged 9), and &#8220;like if they were secretly spiders&#8221; (Daniel, aged 9). The stories they tell have been proclaimed as &#8220;eerie&#8221; (Ethel), &#8220;stupid&#8221; (Claire), &#8220;moving&#8221; (Tina), and &#8220;like secret spider dreams&#8221; (Daniel). <\/p>\n<p>Whoever is operating them and for what purpose is currently unknown. If you have any information or concerns about anything related to puppets or puppetry, please call 999 immediately.<\/p>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n<p>Notes: <\/p>\n<p>1. <em>Written on July 13th, 2024<\/em><br \/>\n2. <em>I missed out a tale last weekend but we&#8217;re back now.<\/em><br \/>\n3. <em>Please forgive me.<\/em><\/p>\n__________<\/br><h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Support An Accumulation Of Things<\/a><\/h3><i>If you like the things you've read here please consider subscribing to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">patreon<\/a> or my <a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/davidnguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ko-fi<\/a>. <\/br><\/br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patreon subscribers<\/a> get not just early access to content and also the occasional gift, but also my eternal gratitude. Which I'm not sure is very useful, but is certainly very real.<\/br><\/br>(<a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/davidnguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ko-fi contributors<\/a> probably only get the gratitude I'm afraid, but please get in touch if you want more). <\/br><\/br>Thank you!<\/i><\/br><\/br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The puppet show will be appearing at various locations around the town throughout the summer. Performances last for approximately 45 minutes and entry is free. The puppets are 8 to 12 inches high and made from varnished wood, and move across the stage in ways variously described as &#8220;creepy&#8221; (Ethel, aged 9), &#8220;weird&#8221; (Claire, aged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[1575,1576,39,1209],"class_list":["post-5694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tales-from-the-town","tag-puppets","tag-shows","tag-summer","tag-tales-from-the-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5695,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694\/revisions\/5695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}