{"id":3029,"date":"2013-03-11T14:18:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T19:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=3029"},"modified":"2013-03-11T14:18:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T19:18:29","slug":"movie-monday-introducing-cow-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=3029","title":{"rendered":"movie monday:  introducing&#8230;. cow chicken!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>cow chicken was recently re-discovered at our house.\u00c2\u00a0 before this most recent unearthing, cow chicken didn&#8217;t have a name or a voice or a personality, but for some reason, when he was found this time, the name &#8220;cow chicken&#8221; just popped up and he has become a household necessity.\u00c2\u00a0 when the happy little dude doesn&#8217;t want to come to dinner because he&#8217;s too busy playing, if cow chicken asks him to come to the table, he will.\u00c2\u00a0 when he recently slipped and fell down a few of our stairs, he cried for me first, then insisted that he needed to talk to (and re-enact the accident for) cow chicken.\u00c2\u00a0 i am frequently asked to put cow chicken on so that the happy little dude can talk to him.\u00c2\u00a0 and so, although it is awkward to film oneself while wearing a puppet, and completely impossible to adjust the focus manually while filming and wearing a puppet (and there&#8217;s no way the main characters will stay at the same focal length for the entire run of the movie, so auto focusing is pointless too)&#8230;. we&#8217;d like to present you with an introduction to cow chicken.\u00c2\u00a0 our new best puppet friend.\u00c2\u00a0 and also, flamingo&#8211;a relative who showed up a bit later.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/61505212\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cow chicken was recently re-discovered at our house.\u00c2\u00a0 before this most recent unearthing, cow chicken didn&#8217;t have a name or a voice or a personality, but for some reason, when he was found this time, the name &#8220;cow chicken&#8221; just &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=3029\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3031,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions\/3031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}