{"id":7047,"date":"2013-07-02T23:28:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T03:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puppeteers.org\/?p=7047"},"modified":"2013-07-05T10:35:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T14:35:21","slug":"puppet-festival-banned-in-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/2013\/07\/02\/puppet-festival-banned-in-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Puppet Festival Banned in Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Israel&#8217;s Ministry of Public Security last week ordered the temporary closure of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnt-pal.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hakawati Theater<\/a>, the Palestinian national theater in east Jerusalem, canceling a children&#8217;s festival set to feature puppet shows and plays. Israeli police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said organizers of the theater illegally received funds from the Palestinian Authority government in the West Bank.&#8221; \u00a0(via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Hollywood\/2013\/07\/01\/Israeli-actors-protest-closing-Palestinian-theater\" target=\"_blank\">BreitBart.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Since then puppeteers from the Sesame Street Israel have come together to campaign against this closure. They have created a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/puppets4all?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">page on Facebook called Puppets4all<\/a> and have encouraged puppeteers around the world to post pictures of themselves with a puppet and a sign of support.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Bernd Ogrodnik (pictured below) for posting his picture and letting me know about this online campaign.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7048\" title=\"Puppets4all Bernd Ogrodnik\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/945356_10151501160082338_600379092_n-460x356.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/945356_10151501160082338_600379092_n-460x356.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/945356_10151501160082338_600379092_n-600x466.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/945356_10151501160082338_600379092_n-680x527.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/945356_10151501160082338_600379092_n-150x116.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/945356_10151501160082338_600379092_n-252x195.jpg 252w, https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/945356_10151501160082338_600379092_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Israel&#8217;s Ministry of Public Security last week ordered the temporary closure of the Hakawati Theater, the Palestinian national theater in east Jerusalem, canceling a children&#8217;s festival set to feature puppet shows and plays. Israeli police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said organizers of the theater illegally received funds from the Palestinian Authority government in the West Bank.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7048,"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":[2066,1318,1357],"class_list":{"0":"post-7047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-puppet-headlines","8":"tag-international","9":"tag-other-puppetry-festivals","10":"tag-political","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047","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=7047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}