{"id":829,"date":"2013-02-27T04:02:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T04:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/?p=829"},"modified":"2013-02-27T04:02:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T04:02:03","slug":"my-girls-and-some-puppets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/?p=829","title":{"rendered":"My girls and some puppets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zoe, my eldest daughter, was with us last year when we saw the fabulous MAC children&#8217;s rights group perform at remote Macalaco school. \u00a0The puppets they used in part of the performance were pretty old and tatty, so my two younger daughters and I decided to find them some new ones. \u00a0We were able to get 4 sets of 6 great animal puppets made by ladies in Bangladesh and imported by the lovely Sally at Earthlink Handcrafts. \u00a0Few Timorese children know how to give personalities and names to animals so the girls decided to help them by finding out the Tetum name for each animal and naming them. \u00a0So Leo Lafaek (crocodile), Sammy Samea (snake) and the others are now in Timor. \u00a0We&#8217;re planning MAC performances at the schools in the villages of Festau and Ostico, so the puppets will make their journey to those remote villages soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_9159.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-832\" alt=\"IMG_9159\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_9159-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_9162.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-833\" alt=\"IMG_9162\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_9162-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_9161.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-834\" alt=\"IMG_9161\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_9161-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoe, my eldest daughter, was with us last year when we saw the fabulous MAC children&#8217;s rights group perform at remote Macalaco school. \u00a0The puppets they used in part of the performance were pretty old and tatty, so my two younger daughters and I decided to find them some new ones. \u00a0We were able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5,11,10,9,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}