{"id":44411,"date":"2011-04-18T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/theatlantic-celebrity-invention-jim-hensons\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T16:57:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T23:57:42","slug":"theatlantic-celebrity-invention-jim-hensons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/theatlantic-celebrity-invention-jim-hensons\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-44411 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/theatlantic-celebrity-invention-jim-hensons\/attachment\/44412\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_li9uzi1Xy81qcokc4o1_640-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theatlantic.tumblr.com\/post\/3946414766\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">theatlantic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2011\/03\/celebrity-invention-jim-hensons-proto-muppet\/72720\/\">Celebrity Invention: Jim Henson\u2019s Proto-Muppet<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s a very adorable googly-eyed puppet. Patented in 1959, this puppet was pre-Muppets era \u2014 Henson created the doll while studying applied arts at the University of Maryland. Unlike many puppets created during the time, Henson used foam rubber covered in fabric.The flexibility allowed the characters to express more emotion than conventional wood creations.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkins Coffee asked Henson to produce their local ads. Henson created two puppet characters to star in the commercials: The cheerful Wilkins who liked the coffee and the grouchy Wontkins (!) who did not like it. Henson produced 179 short spots, like these, for the company.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-Ky7g1lgTwc?version=3\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-Ky7g1lgTwc?version=3<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2011\/03\/celebrity-invention-jim-hensons-proto-muppet\/72720\/\">The Atlantic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>theatlantic: Celebrity Invention: Jim Henson\u2019s Proto-Muppet It\u2019s a very adorable googly-eyed puppet. Patented in 1959, this puppet was pre-Muppets era \u2014 Henson created the doll while studying applied arts at the University of Maryland. Unlike many puppets created during the time, Henson used foam rubber covered in fabric.The flexibility allowed the characters to express more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1537,560],"class_list":["post-44411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-critical-toys","tag-toy","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-byj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44413,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44411\/revisions\/44413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}