{"id":1891,"date":"2010-02-18T17:19:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T17:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2010-02-18T17:19:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T17:19:03","slug":"missing_jim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/18\/missing_jim\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Jim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kermit the Frog remembers an old friend\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/jim-henson-and-kermit.jpg\" width=\"380\" height=\"449\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not much to say, I just really liked this photo I spotted over at <a href=\"http:\/\/samuraifrog.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/so-much-emotion-contained-in-felt.html\">SamuraiFrog&#8217;s place<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It amazes me how <i>alive<\/i> The Muppets, and especially Kermit, still seem to me, even after all these years, and even when I&#8217;m looking at a picture that ought to shatter any remaining illusion that these things are anything but a cloth tube &#8212; a decorated sock, really &#8212; with a human being&#8217;s hand up the bottom. And yet, looking at this all-too-recognizable pose, this reminder that a gentle man and an insanely creative artist left us way before his time, brings a lump to my throat because, for just a moment, I know exactly what that silly cloth frog is &#8220;feeling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I miss him, too, Kermie&#8230; we all do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much to say, I just really liked this photo I spotted over at SamuraiFrog&#8217;s place. It amazes me how alive The Muppets, and especially Kermit, still seem to me, even after all these years, and even when I&#8217;m looking at a picture that ought to shatter any remaining illusion that these things are anything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-glass-teat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}