{"id":9325,"date":"2014-12-09T22:04:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T03:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puppeteers.org\/?p=9325"},"modified":"2014-12-09T22:04:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T03:04:05","slug":"in-memory-of-bob-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/2014\/12\/09\/in-memory-of-bob-baker\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memory of Bob Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9326\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9326\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/la-143210-me-1119-baker-1-mam-jpg-20141128-680x382.jpg\" alt=\"Bob Baker in 2008 with some of his marionettes. (Mel Melcon \/ Los Angeles Times)\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/la-143210-me-1119-baker-1-mam-jpg-20141128-680x382.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/la-143210-me-1119-baker-1-mam-jpg-20141128-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/la-143210-me-1119-baker-1-mam-jpg-20141128-460x258.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/la-143210-me-1119-baker-1-mam-jpg-20141128-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/la-143210-me-1119-baker-1-mam-jpg-20141128-252x141.jpg 252w, https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/la-143210-me-1119-baker-1-mam-jpg-20141128.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-9326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Baker in 2008 with some of his marionettes. (Mel Melcon \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bob Baker&#8217;s magnificent contributions to the art of puppetry earned the Puppeteers of America, President&#8217;s Award in 1987. He was a member for more than 60 years. His first of many festival performances was in 1957. Nancy Staub wrote, &#8220;Bob w<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">as an amazing, sweet man, not just a creative, outstanding\u00a0puppeteer. He and his partner Alton worked tirelessly and unheralded\u00a0during the 1980 World Puppetry Festival in D.C. They noticed the box\u00a0office staff was overwhelmed and pitched in! He shared his talent and\u00a0energy with generosity and grace.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A wonderful memoriam\u00a0article about Bob can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/obituaries\/la-me-bob-baker-20141129-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">latimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Baker&#8217;s magnificent contributions to the art of puppetry earned the Puppeteers of America, President&#8217;s Award in 1987. He was a member for more than 60 years. His first of many festival performances was in 1957. Nancy Staub wrote, &#8220;Bob was an amazing, sweet man, not just a creative, outstanding\u00a0puppeteer. He and his partner Alton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9326,"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":[2074,1315],"class_list":{"0":"post-9325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-puppet-headlines","8":"tag-bob-baker","9":"tag-in-memorium","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9325","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=9325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}