{"id":4694,"date":"2018-08-20T03:08:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T12:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=4694"},"modified":"2018-09-21T11:41:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T20:41:16","slug":"moisture-festival-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=4694","title":{"rendered":"Moisture Festival Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/MoistFest_BalloonDrop_1L-300x264.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/MoistFest_BalloonDrop_1L.jpg 300w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/MoistFest_BalloonDrop_1L-150x132.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Seattle&#8217;s Moisture Festival has grown to be the largest comedy\/variety festival in the world. (Perhaps if they had known that when they started, fifteen years ago, they would have given it a different name.) It grew out of a collaboration of performers on the left coast vaudeville circuit and other performers from around the states and around the world. One of the inspirations for the festival was a cabaret run by the great German clown, Hacki Ginda.<\/p>\n<p>I was once part of that vaudeville circuit, and many of the folks in this shot are friends of mine. This was shot a few years ago at the end of the festival, and that&#8217;s Hacki Ginda at center stage. Also pictured in the back, sporting a beard, is the great American clown Avner Eisenberg, aka Avner the Eccentric, who years ago did a one man show on Broadway to critical acclaim. The Moisture Festival has very little money to pay performers and yet they come from all over the world to participate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle&#8217;s Moisture Festival has grown to be the largest comedy\/variety festival in the world. (Perhaps if they had known that when they started, fifteen years ago, they would have given it a different name.) It grew out of a collaboration of performers on the left coast vaudeville circuit and other performers from around the states [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560,76],"tags":[23,579,578,577,19],"class_list":["post-4694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a30","category-folioa","tag-bob-venezia","tag-finale","tag-moisture-festival","tag-theatre","tag-tl-120"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4699,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694\/revisions\/4699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}