{"id":3095,"date":"2020-05-08T04:30:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T04:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/2020site\/?p=3095"},"modified":"2020-07-07T12:12:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T17:12:13","slug":"does-your-puppet-respond-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/?p=3095","title":{"rendered":"Does your puppet respond to you?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi Everyone,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just a quick status&nbsp;update.&nbsp; We are still having some issues with the Newsletter distribution, but we hope that by next week they will be solved and everything will be back to normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, for the good stuff.&nbsp; When you are performing, does your puppet respond to you?&nbsp; When you say something to your puppet or to someone in the audience, does your puppet just sit there as though lifeless or does he\/she respond to you.&nbsp; Case in point, if you say something to your puppet, does the puppet shake his\/her head or laugh at you or put his hand over his mouth as though he is astonished by your comment?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just like when you are talking to another person, your puppet should show surprise, shock, astonishment, anger, happiness and other forms of emotion even when he\/she is not speaking.&nbsp; When he is speaking, make sure that he is moving, or shaking his head or any other thing to show that he is in fact alive.&nbsp; It is all about the illusion that the puppet is real and alive that makes your act the best that it can be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get in front of a mirror and practice.&nbsp; It is not rocket science but it will make a big difference on the way your audience perceives your skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will talk again next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steve and JET<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone, Just a quick status&nbsp;update.&nbsp; We are still having some issues with the Newsletter distribution, but we hope that&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-3095","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\/3095","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=3095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3096,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions\/3096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}