{"id":22,"date":"2008-07-04T20:14:39","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T01:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2008\/07\/04\/1215220479221.html"},"modified":"2008-07-04T20:14:39","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T01:14:39","slug":"blogentry-history-of-the-muppets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] History of the Muppets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=&#034;http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/16220&#034;>Where Did The Muppets Come From?<\/a><\/p>\n<p\/>This article caught my interest after a coworker let me borrow his DVD of Jim Henson&#039;s early work on the Ed Sullivan Show.  In it, Cookie Monster is green, has teeth, and doesn&#039;t talk.  Big Bird is very similar in body but has a tiny head.  And Kermit is really the exact same.<\/p>\n<p\/>I was under the impression that Rolf the Dog was the first official &#034;Muppet&#034;, but according to the list, Kermit was around for nearly a decade before Rolf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where Did The Muppets Come From? This article caught my interest after a coworker let me borrow his DVD of Jim Henson&#039;s early work on the Ed Sullivan Show. In it, Cookie Monster is green, has teeth, and doesn&#039;t talk. Big Bird is very similar in body but has a tiny head. And Kermit is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}