{"id":937,"date":"2008-10-30T00:18:49","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T00:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=937"},"modified":"2008-10-30T00:18:49","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T00:18:49","slug":"jim-hensons-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=937","title":{"rendered":"Jim Henson’s Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFollowing the Young@Heart stuff, I was reminded of something else I’d been meaning to blog for a while.
\nA few weeks back I stumbled across some videos on YouTube from Jim Henson’s memorial service in New York<\/a>, from 1990. I watched them with my heart in my mouth – these were moments I’d heard about years ago but had never seen. Henson was an inspiration and an example to me when I was a kid, and he is even more so now, and the story of his memorial always seemed to sum up his legacy: open to the public, full of performances from friends and Muppets, equal parts laughter and tears.
\nSo I finally got to see Big Bird doing “Being green”. I made it through the whole song without losing it, but right at the end, Big Bird looks up and says in a quiet voice, “Goodbye Kermit”. That tipped me over. So sad.
\nThere were many other great moments – Harry Belafonte doing “Turn the World Around” was a highlight – and I was eager to share them. But I waited too long, for all of those videos are now gone from YouTube. It bothers me a little – surely Jim Henson would have wanted his memorial out in the public domain? – but it seems silly to make a cause out of this.
\nSimply mark this, that the internet is a big and wild place and you will certainly have the chance to see this memorial some time in the future. When the chance comes, grab it. And maybe flip me an email so I can give it some linky…
\n(Also disappeared from YouTube: Henson’s wonderful Time Piece<\/a> short. If you get the chance, watch that.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following the Young@Heart stuff, I was reminded of something else I’d been meaning to blog for a while. A few weeks back I stumbled across some videos on YouTube from Jim Henson’s memorial service in New York, from 1990. I watched them with my heart in my mouth – these were moments I’d heard about … Continue reading Jim Henson’s Memorial<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-ive-seen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-f7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}