{"id":26370,"date":"2017-08-01T17:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/?p=26370"},"modified":"2017-08-01T19:00:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T19:00:16","slug":"the-historical-finger-puppet-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/08\/01\/the-historical-finger-puppet-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"The Historical Finger Puppet Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some days you have to amuse yourself or you will lose the plot. Today was such a day but luckily it was saved by a fajita related injury, sellotape, a whiteboard pen and creative colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And lo, historical finger puppet theatre* was born! It&#8217;s fun and educational. Working with a history graduate and a history geek meant a good debate on which characters we would use while I made sure that women were not overlooked.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our starting line up are:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nefertiti<\/p>\n<p>Julius Caesar<\/p>\n<p>Eleanor of Aquitaine<\/p>\n<p>Genghis Khan<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth I<\/p>\n<p>Moctezuma II<\/p>\n<p>George Washington<\/p>\n<p>Napoleon Bonaparte<\/p>\n<p>Emmeline Pankhurst<\/p>\n<p>Winston Churchill<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I think that&#8217;s a good starting point. There now needs to be felt characters made, a stage built, a script. That&#8217;s all before we move on to the difficult job of casting. The most fizzy thing is knowing your colleagues are wonderfully weird, fabulously creative and willing to share a tiny bit of their talent with you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*we also do sensible lawyery stuff too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days you have to amuse yourself or you will lose the plot. Today was such a day but luckily it was saved by a fajita related injury, sellotape, a whiteboard pen and creative colleagues. &nbsp; And lo, historical finger puppet theatre* was born! It&#8217;s fun and educational. Working with a history graduate and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[153,62],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Finger_puppets.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26373,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26370\/revisions\/26373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}