{"id":1967,"date":"2012-02-02T09:11:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T13:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puppeteers.org\/?post_type=puppet_news&#038;p=1967"},"modified":"2013-05-20T15:34:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T19:34:29","slug":"natural-bridges-puppet-company-creates-courtroom-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/2012\/02\/02\/natural-bridges-puppet-company-creates-courtroom-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Bridges Puppet Company recreates Courtroom Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had heard about this story a couple of weeks ago, but daily it seems to continue to get more and more attention, until this morning as I was eating my oatmeal and drinking my tea I heard NPR <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/02\/02\/146265445\/tv-station-uses-puppets-to-recreate-courtroom-proceedings\">do a whole segment on it<\/a>. \u00a0For those who haven&#8217;t heard &#8211; the story is basically that the local news show on Channel 19 in Akron, OH was hoping to be able to film the corruption trial of Jimmy Dimora, a former county commissioner. \u00a0Clearly this is big news for Akron, and sketch artists just weren&#8217;t going to cut it. \u00a0And so, Channel 19 has hired <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mynbtv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Bridges Puppet Company<\/a> to recreate certain moments of this courtroom drama. \u00a0Video posted below.<br \/>\n<em><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> there is a delay in the sync between the video and the audio.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dimora Trial: Puppet&#039;s Court Day 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-jEkAPYR5BM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had heard about this story a couple of weeks ago, but daily it seems to continue to get more and more attention, until this morning as I was eating my oatmeal and drinking my tea I heard NPR do a whole segment on it. \u00a0For those who haven&#8217;t heard &#8211; the story is basically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"page.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1013],"tags":[1113,1042],"class_list":{"0":"post-1967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-puppet-headlines","8":"tag-ohio","9":"tag-puppet-films","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}