{"id":5313,"date":"2018-03-06T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=5313"},"modified":"2018-03-17T13:28:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T00:28:11","slug":"still-life-with-chickens-home-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/still-life-with-chickens-home-stretch\/","title":{"rendered":"STILL LIFE WITH CHICKENS: home stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The play opens\u00a0<strong>this Thursday<\/strong>. I don&#8217;t know where the time has fled.\u00a0Meantime:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>designer\u00a0<strong>John Parker<\/strong> was interviewed on Radio New Zealand about his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/national\/programmes\/standing-room-only\/audio\/2018634610\/john-parker-s-love-of-puppets-and-chickens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">love of puppetry<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>there are these pieces at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/entertainment\/stage-and-theatre\/101741470\/auckland-theatre-company-onewoman-play-addresses-loneliness-and-family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stuff<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindfood.com\/article\/still-life-chickens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mindfood<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>a very nice mention by\u00a0<strong>Renee Liang<\/strong> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebigidea.nz\/stories\/my-auckland-arts-festival-picks-renee-liang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Big Idea<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>and the <a href=\"https:\/\/atc.us14.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=49804ce62a531ecd9bb83fb40&amp;id=a3e7dfd494&amp;e=16a6230700\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">programme<\/a> for your taste-whetting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m in Wellington for the <a href=\"https:\/\/touringselector.com\/conference\/arts-market-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arts Market<\/a> (and some <a href=\"https:\/\/fringe.co.nz\/programme\/event?elizabeth\/1f39b443-0104-46d8-8f8c-793eb29156eb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theatre<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.festival.co.nz\/2018\/events\/valerie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">yuss<\/a>) so this week&#8217;ll fly.<\/p>\n<p>(Please forgive the avian puns. I hope you understand.)<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, please can someone suggest why this pic \u2014<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4909\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4909\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4909\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/151203.jpg?resize=450%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clint, a feisty Barnevelder\/Orpington cross.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2014 keeps making me flash on this:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5322\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5322\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5322\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/batman04.jpg?resize=525%2C295\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Batman (1989). Image copyright Warner Brothers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Your answers and suggestions welcome in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The play opens\u00a0this Thursday. I don&#8217;t know where the time has fled.\u00a0Meantime: designer\u00a0John Parker was interviewed on Radio New Zealand about his love of puppetry; there are these pieces at Stuff\u00a0and\u00a0Mindfood; a very nice mention by\u00a0Renee Liang at The Big Idea; and the programme for your taste-whetting. I&#8217;m in Wellington for the Arts Market (and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/still-life-with-chickens-home-stretch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;STILL LIFE WITH CHICKENS: home stretch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,23],"tags":[412,1210],"class_list":["post-5313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scriptwriting","category-theatre","tag-batman","tag-still-life-with-chickens"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5313"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5324,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5313\/revisions\/5324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}