{"id":5452,"date":"2008-06-24T23:38:29","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T23:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5452"},"modified":"2008-06-24T23:38:29","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T23:38:29","slug":"kermit-ernest-hollingshead-love-1916-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/kermit-ernest-hollingshead-love-1916-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Kermit Ernest Hollingshead Love (1916 &#8211; 2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kermit_Love' class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kermitloveisgone.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"kermitloveisgone\" width=\"500\" height=\"251\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kermitloveisgone.jpg 505w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kermitloveisgone-400x201.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kermit_Love\" class=\"external external_icon\">Kermit Love<\/a>, the costume designer for some of ballet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most renowned choreographers whose<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/24\/arts\/24love.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\" class=\"external external_icon\"> greatest fame came as a creator, with Jim Henson, of the beloved \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sesame Street\u00e2\u20ac\u009d characters Big Bird and Mr. Snuffleupagus<\/a>, died on Saturday in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He was 91 and lived in Stanfordville, N.Y.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Young Kermit was first fascinated with Punch-and-Judy puppets at 7. &#8220;But what inspired me even more was shadow play,&#8221; he told New York magazine in 1985. &#8220;I can remember rigging a lantern and casting shadows on the wall.&#8221; Thrown by a horse at 12, he suffered serious damage to both legs. Bedridden for three years, he listened to radio dramas and drew pictures of what he imagined the characters looked like.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/24\/arts\/24love.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">nytimes<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kermit Love, the costume designer for some of ballet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most renowned choreographers whose greatest fame came as a creator, with Jim Henson, of the beloved \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sesame Street\u00e2\u20ac\u009d characters Big Bird and Mr. Snuffleupagus, died on Saturday in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He was 91 and lived in Stanfordville, N.Y. [&#8230;] Young Kermit was first fascinated with Punch-and-Judy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[257,256,258,259,218],"class_list":["post-5452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people-who-died","tag-childhood-memories","tag-kermit-love","tag-muppets","tag-sad-now","tag-tweet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}