{"id":4484,"date":"2021-07-23T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/?p=4484"},"modified":"2021-07-22T20:59:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T01:59:47","slug":"sometimes-the-chickens-do-come-home-to-roost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/?p=4484","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes the Chickens do come home to roost!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi Everyone,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>We are back home at the Shoppe from the Vent Haven ConVENTion.\u00a0 We are still worn out and exhausted, but we loved every minute of the event.\u00a0 We were happy to reunite with so many of our &#8220;family members&#8221; and a good time was had by all.\u00a0 If you were not there, then you should make plans to try and attend next year.\u00a0 Go to\u00a0\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vhconvention.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/vhconvention.com\/\"><strong>vhconvention.com<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and check the dates for 2022 and start saving just a little bit of money each week to pay the expenses.\u00a0 \u00a0In 15 years I have never heard anyone say that they wished they had not gone to the ConVENTion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Several years ago, we met and sold a puppet to a young girl that almost no one had heard of before.\u00a0 She named her puppet &#8220;Edna Doorknocker&#8221;, and since that night almost everyone in the U.S. has come to know who she is.\u00a0 Darci Lynn is one of the most talented Ventriloquists that we have ever seen, and she was back again this year at ConVENTion.\u00a0 We love this young lady and she brought Edna with her for JET to do a minor repair.\u00a0 There was no way that we were going to miss a chance for an updated photo of JET, Edna and Darci.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_0953-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4487\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_0953-rotated.jpg 480w, http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_0953-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_0953-450x600.jpg 450w, http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_0953-120x160.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><br>We will talk again next week,<br>Steve and JET<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone, We are back home at the Shoppe from the Vent Haven ConVENTion.\u00a0 We are still worn out and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,59,60,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-personal","category-puppets","category-ventriloquism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484","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=4484"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4491,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions\/4491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}