{"id":252,"date":"2010-06-22T12:55:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T12:55:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-10-01T00:55:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T00:55:21","slug":"bob-baker-a-living-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2010\/06\/22\/bob-baker-a-living-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Baker A living Treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of L.A.&#8217;s amazing living treasures is Bob Baker, who discovered his purpose in life that the age of 7 (he is now 86) by entertaining kids young and old through the art and&nbsp;magic of marionettes. &nbsp; It was not until I was in my 40&#8217;s that I saw any of his shows that he presents at his little theater near the border of downtown and Echo Park. &nbsp;(actually I may have when I was younger but my memory may be fading)&nbsp;&nbsp;Now only does he produce these&nbsp;amazing&nbsp;shows but makes all the puppets&nbsp;himself.<\/p>\n<p>His group will be giving a free performance at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.levittpavilionpasadena.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Levitt Pavilion in Pasadena<\/a> tomorrow at 7PM and will probably give a performance at the Levitt Pavilion in MacArthur Park as well (but I don&#8217;t have that date yet).<\/p>\n<p>So please come and see the amazing marionettes!!!<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-252\" data-postid=\"252\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-252 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of L.A.&#8217;s amazing living treasures is Bob Baker, who discovered his purpose in life that the age of 7 (he is now 86) by entertaining kids young and old through the art and&nbsp;magic of marionettes. &nbsp; It was not until I was in my 40&#8217;s that I saw any of his shows that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}