{"id":14555,"date":"2003-10-02T02:32:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-02T02:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/02\/university-of-maryland-dedicates-jim-henson-statue\/"},"modified":"2003-10-02T02:32:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-02T02:32:00","slug":"university-of-maryland-dedicates-jim-henson-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/02\/university-of-maryland-dedicates-jim-henson-statue\/","title":{"rendered":"University Of Maryland Dedicates Jim Henson Statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsline.umd.edu\/etcetera\/specialreports\/campusconnections\/hensonstatue092403a.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"clay model of Jim Henson\/Kermit UMD statue\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/jimhenson_claystatue.jpg\" \/><\/a>Last week the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsline.umd.edu\/etcetera\/specialreports\/campusconnections\/hensonstatue092403a.htm\" target=\"_blank\">University of Maryland (my alma mater) unveiled a statue honoring alumus Jim Henson<\/a>, featuring him with one of his most beloved characters, Kermit The Frog.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urhome.umd.edu\/newsdesk\/culture\/release.cfm?ArticleID=773\" target=\"_blank\">dedication last Wednesday<\/a> coincided with Henson&rsquo;s birthday, who would have been 67.  I haven&rsquo;t been back to the campus for some time, but this statue, along with a collection of Henson&rsquo;s artwork at Hornbake Library, is a very compelling reason to go back and visit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-106503559711949114?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the University of Maryland (my alma mater) unveiled a statue honoring alumus Jim Henson, featuring him with one of his most beloved characters, Kermit The Frog. The dedication last Wednesday coincided with Henson&rsquo;s birthday, who would have been 67. I haven&rsquo;t been back to the campus for some time, but this statue, along &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/02\/university-of-maryland-dedicates-jim-henson-statue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;University Of Maryland Dedicates Jim Henson Statue&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}