{"id":4313,"date":"2021-03-26T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/?p=4313"},"modified":"2021-03-25T10:21:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T15:21:09","slug":"is-your-material-current-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/?p=4313","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Material Current?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-color wp-block-heading\" style=\"color:#ff0000\"><strong><em>Something New<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Aunt-Maybelle-2-L-102-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4304\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Aunt-Maybelle-2-L-102-rotated.jpg 480w, http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Aunt-Maybelle-2-L-102-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Aunt-Maybelle-2-L-102-450x600.jpg 450w, http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Aunt-Maybelle-2-L-102-120x160.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/?item=aunt-maybelle-l-102\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/?item=aunt-maybelle-l-102\">Aunt Maybelle (L-102)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/?item=pokey-a-172\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Pokey-2-A-172-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4310\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Pokey-2-A-172-rotated.jpg 480w, http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Pokey-2-A-172-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Pokey-2-A-172-450x600.jpg 450w, http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Pokey-2-A-172-120x160.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><a href=\"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/?item=pokey-a-172\">Pokey (A-172)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:14px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:16px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Every now and then we will see something that reminds us of the importance of keeping your material current. Have you ever seen a stand up comedian that falls flat when he gets up and talks about things that are happening . . . and everything he brings up are news articles that are several years old?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same thing holds true with Ventriloquists. We, as a group, are basically stand up comedians \u2013 with puppets, figures or dummies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is very important that if you are using material where your character is making a funny comment about a news item or a politician that you keep the material up to date and current. Yes, almost all politicians are fair game and make funny blunders, but if you are going to take a humorous poke at a political figure, PLEASE don\u2019t take a poke at Richard Nixon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ok that\u2019s extreme, but you get the point. It is really very simple. Constantly review your script material and if the line is more than 3 months old, replace it. The general public memory does not function well beyond that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until next time,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steve &amp; JET<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something New Every now and then we will see something that reminds us of the importance of keeping your material&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-4313","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\/4313","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=4313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4314,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313\/revisions\/4314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}