{"id":1166,"date":"2017-02-03T09:18:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T08:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mezrablog.wordpress.com\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2017-02-03T09:18:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T08:18:29","slug":"the-storyteller-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mezrab.nl\/mezrabblog\/the-storyteller-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Storyteller dies&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though the romantic story of how I got into storytelling is that my father inspired me, there&#8217;s another storyteller who played a part almost as large. I simply knew him by the name T<em>he Storyteller<\/em>. A series created by Jim Henson (the Muppet Show, Labyrinth, etc.) which told the old European fairy tales with great writing, amazing visuals and above all, a master teller that glued it all together. I saw and re-saw them, first on TV, later on tape and DVD. The first stories that I told were the ones that appeared on this show. Sadly a second season of the show (featuring Greek myths) was cancelled mid season as parents thought it was too gruesome. It pissed me off: these were stories that mattered, not like the cleaned up happy meals that Disney gave us.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly the original Storyteller, John Hurt, passed away last week. Good sir, we&#8217;ll keep listening to your stories and we&#8217;ll keep telling them:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CnVd8FrEK80&amp;w=640&amp;h=360]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the romantic story of how I got into storytelling is that my father inspired me, there&#8217;s another storyteller who played a part almost as large. I simply knew him by the name The Storyteller. A series created by Jim Henson (the Muppet Show, Labyrinth, etc.) which told the old European fairy tales with great &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mezrab.nl\/mezrabblog\/the-storyteller-dies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Storyteller dies&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mezrab.nl\/mezrabblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mezrab.nl\/mezrabblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mezrab.nl\/mezrabblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mezrab.nl\/mezrabblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mezrab.nl\/mezrabblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mezrab.nl\/mezrabblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mezrab.nl\/mezrabblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mezrab.nl\/mezrabblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mezrab.nl\/mezrabblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}