{"id":1038,"date":"2017-12-08T04:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/blog\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2020-07-07T12:12:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T17:12:23","slug":"dont-forget-to-practice-you-manipulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/?p=1038","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Forget to Practice you Manipulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a reminder that one MAJOR item that will either make you look good or really BAD is the way you manipulate your puppet.<\/p>\n<p>Failure to properly manipulate your puppet can put you in the category of someone just using a sock puppet.  Nobody will think that a sock puppet is a real &#8220;person&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The puppet should always be in motion.  Just like you typically don&#8217;t hold still, your puppet should always be on the move.  He\/She can have a twitch, a cough, be scratching an itch or just bouncing around. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He\/She can wipe their nose, rub their eyes or any of a hundred other things.  NOTHING THAT IS ALWAYS MOVING CAN BE MISTAKEN FOR DEAD.<\/p>\n<p>Again, get your mirror and practice, practice, practice.<\/p>\n<p>We will talk again next week.<\/p>\n<p>Steve and JET<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a reminder that one MAJOR item that will either make you look good or really BAD is the way&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,60,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hints-and-tips","category-puppets","category-ventriloquism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3237,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/3237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}