{"id":25618,"date":"2014-06-28T07:20:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T11:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25618"},"modified":"2016-10-23T10:27:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T14:27:22","slug":"wait-now-youre-telling-me-big-bird-is-not-real-too-sorry-again-its-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25618","title":{"rendered":"Wait! Now You&#8217;re Telling Me Big Bird Is Not Real Too?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wait! Now You&#8217;re Telling Me Big Bird Is Not Real Too?<\/p>\n<p>Sorry again! It&#8217;s really a man named Caroll Spinney. Actually, Mr. Spinney retired a few years back, but he was the original Big Bird and Oscar The Grouch.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an NPR interview with him&#8230;he&#8217;s 81 now. Enjoy and share!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=1249919\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=1249919<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/695228047181414\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Wait-Now-Youre-Telling-Me-Big-Bird-Is-Not-Real-Too-Sorry-again-Its-really\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/695228047181414\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1477217972_623_Wait-Now-Youre-Telling-Me-Big-Bird-Is-Not-Real-Too-Sorry-again-Its-really\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/695229863847899\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wait! Now You&#8217;re Telling Me Big Bird Is Not Real Too? Sorry again! It&#8217;s really a man named Caroll Spinney. Actually, Mr. Spinney retired a few years back, but he was the original Big Bird and Oscar The Grouch. Here&#8217;s an NPR interview with him&#8230;he&#8217;s 81 now. Enjoy and share! http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=1249919 Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}