{"id":667,"date":"2021-10-12T15:17:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T22:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/?p=667"},"modified":"2021-10-12T15:17:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T22:17:48","slug":"balloons-over-broadway-the-story-of-the-thanksgiving-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/balloons-over-broadway-the-story-of-the-thanksgiving-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Balloons Over Broadway: the Story of the Thanksgiving Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/61KnrWA-TiL._SX260_.jpg\" alt=\"Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy&amp;#39;s Parade  (Bank Street College of Education Flora Stieglitz Straus Award (Awards))  eBook : Sweet, Melissa: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever been to a parade? Today, we read the story of Tony Sarg the puppeteer. He was one of the first people to design and create the floating balloon &#8216;puppets&#8217; commonly used in the Macy&#8217;s parade in New York City! This parade has been going on since 1924 (almost 100 years). Below is a photo of one of the first balloon puppets designed by Tony:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/blogs.smithsonianmag.com\/design\/files\/2013\/11\/macys-felix.jpg\" alt=\"The Puppeteer Who Brought Balloons to the Thanksgiving Day Parade | Arts &amp;amp;  Culture | Smithsonian Magazine\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some questions to consider:<\/p>\n<p>-How has the design of the balloons changed over the years? Why do you think they have made these changes?<\/p>\n<p>-Why do the designers use helium instead of another gas (like oxygen)?<\/p>\n<p>-If you were going to design a balloon float, what character\/creature would you design?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How The Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day Parade Comes To Life | NBC Nightly News\" width=\"863\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E_omMWq80NY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever been to a parade? Today, we read the story of Tony Sarg the puppeteer. He was one of the first people to design and create the floating balloon &#8216;puppets&#8217; commonly used in the Macy&#8217;s parade in New York City! This parade has been going on since 1924 (almost 100 years). Below is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/balloons-over-broadway-the-story-of-the-thanksgiving-parade\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Balloons Over Broadway: the Story of the Thanksgiving Parade<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,11,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}