{"id":4143,"date":"2017-11-28T10:36:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T15:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=4143"},"modified":"2017-11-29T10:04:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T15:04:17","slug":"mascots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2017\/11\/28\/mascots\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Mascots!&#8217; Exhibit Asks Why We Care So Much About These Fuzzy, Costumed Sports Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think sometimes puppets and masks are thought of as a primitive and non-modern remnant of indigenous cultures. \u2026 And yet they show up,\u201d says John Bell, a Cambridge-based puppeteer and theater historian, as well as the director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow masks and puppets are everywhere in our culture\u2014from parades to street corner tax help sales-puppets\u2014and yet we can\u2019t quite see them. One example is sports mascots, the subject of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bimp.uconn.edu\/2017\/10\/09\/grand-opening-of-mascots-mask-performance-in-the-21st-century-on-1019-at-530-p-m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0\u201cMascots! Mask Performance in the 21st Century.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Read my report on the exhibit at the Ballard Institute and Museum, on view through Feb. 11, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/artery\/2017\/11\/28\/mascots-ballard-institute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4144\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4144\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/picUConnMascots171122-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4144\" src=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/picUConnMascots171122-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cMascots! Mask Performance in the 21st Century,\u201d an exhibit at the Ballard Institute and Museum. (Courtesy Ballard Institute and Museum)\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/picUConnMascots171122-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/picUConnMascots171122-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/picUConnMascots171122-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/picUConnMascots171122-1-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/picUConnMascots171122-1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cMascots! Mask Performance in the 21st Century,\u201d an exhibit at the Ballard Institute and Museum. (Courtesy Ballard Institute and Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think sometimes puppets and masks are thought of as a primitive and non-modern remnant of indigenous cultures. \u2026 And yet they show up,\u201d says John Bell, a Cambridge-based puppeteer and theater historian, as well as the director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut. Somehow masks and puppets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,110],"tags":[122,123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4143"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4149,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions\/4149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}