{"id":145,"date":"2010-11-15T01:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T07:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coryedwards.com\/?p=145"},"modified":"2010-11-15T01:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T07:33:00","slug":"lunch-with-gonzo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coryedwards.com\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"Lunch With Gonzo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">I just had lunch with Dave Goelz this week, the performer behind Gonzo, Boober and countless other classic Henson characters. How cool is that? Yes, he&#8217;s in town because shooting has started on the new Muppet movie, and no, we were not having lunch because I am close to shooting &#8220;Fraggle Rock.&#8221; But it was just amazing to sit there and hear story after story about the early Muppet days. He was there with Jim at the beginning! He also went into great detail about growing up in L.A., and how as a teenager, he and his friends figured out how to sneak on to almost every studio lot. Sorry Dave &#8212; I&#8217;m busting you. Unauthorized audience member of &#8220;The Carol Burnett Show?&#8221; What a hooligan!<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">We talked a lot about what makes a movie classic &#8212; if you make a movie with TRUTH in it, it will remain timeless and resonate with its audience. Dave concurs that the only way the Muppet Show even happened was because it was funded outside the network \/ studio system. Seems like the only time a truly fresh or exceptional show makes it to air is because it slips through the cracks&#8230; almost by mistake. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">Mr. Goelz is one of the last &#8220;Henson legends.&#8221; I was so honored and flattered to share a meal with him. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just had lunch with Dave Goelz this week, the performer behind Gonzo, Boober and countless other classic Henson characters. How cool is that? Yes, he&#8217;s in town because shooting has started on the new Muppet movie, and no, we were not having lunch because I am close to shooting &#8220;Fraggle Rock.&#8221; But it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}