{"id":643960,"date":"2013-02-25T22:34:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T03:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=70625"},"modified":"2013-02-26T01:59:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T06:59:37","slug":"asha-de-vos-meets-a-puppet-of-herself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/643960","title":{"rendered":"Asha de Vos meets a puppet of herself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70626\" alt=\"Asha-de-Vos-main\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/asha-de-vos-main.jpg?w=900\"   \/>Blue whale researcher and TED Senior Fellow Asha de Vos unveiled her TED-Ed lesson today on the TED Fellows stage. The video &#8212; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/why-are-blue-whales-so-enormous-asha-de-vos\">Why are blue whales so enormous?<\/a>&#8221; &#8212; stars a puppet version of de Vos, which she had been coveting for weeks. So\u00a0Fellows &amp; Community Director\u00a0Tom Rielly presented her with it, hand-carried from London by TED Senior Fellow Taghi Amirani. We asked her how she felt to be gifted with her own plush doppelg\u00e4nger.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was such an amazing surprise! When I saw the first cut of the video, I was roaring with laughter. I hadn&#8217;t known they were going to make a puppet of me. So I had actually been pestering Tom and all the TED staff for the last few days about how I could get my hands on it. Tom was very convincing when he said it was in the middle of nowhere and it would be impossible to get it,&#8221; says de Vos. &#8220;I realize now in hindsight that they&#8217;ve been avoiding me a little bit for the last two days. It was a well-kept secret. I&#8217;m looking forward to using it when I talk to kids about the ocean, which I usually do wearing a mask and fins! Now she [the puppet] can do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='586' height='360' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FrK9WDMOqBI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;%23038;fs=1&#038;%23038;showsearch=0&#038;%23038;showinfo=1&#038;%23038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;%23038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Karen Eng<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/70625\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/70625\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=70625&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/sHRq_J3beh0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue whale researcher and TED Senior Fellow Asha de Vos unveiled her TED-Ed lesson today on the TED Fellows stage. The video &#8212; &#8220;Why are blue whales so enormous?&#8221; &#8212; stars a puppet version of de Vos, which she had been coveting for weeks. So\u00a0Fellows &amp; Community Director\u00a0Tom Rielly presented her with it, hand-carried from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7407,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}