{"id":3375,"date":"2013-08-07T13:45:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T17:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/?p=3375"},"modified":"2013-08-07T13:45:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T17:45:34","slug":"bending-gravity-at-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/bending-gravity-at-the-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Bending Gravity at the Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3376\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 10px;\" alt=\"9457330443_8831b3390a_q\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/9457330443_8831b3390a_q.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Over the summers here in Lebanon, the town library (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lebanonctlibrary.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Trumbull Library<\/a>) usually has events for the kids every week, ranging from crafts to movies to animal demonstrations to performers. \u00a0This week&#8217;s act needed a little larger venue to perform some of his act &#8211; since it involved sharp objects and fire. \u00a0So instead of the usual show in the lower level of the Library, it was moved outside onto the adjoining Town Green, giving him plenty of room to put on his show. \u00a0And he sure did use it all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Last night&#8217;s show featured performance artist Eric Girardi and his show <em><strong>Bending Gravity<\/strong><\/em> (his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bendinggravity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website is here<\/a>) in front of a nice sized crowd of parents and kids. \u00a0Once people finished filtering in, he performed for about an hour on the edge of the Green to the riveted crowd. \u00a0His show consisted of some rhythmic juggling with acrylic spheres, a variety of yo-yo tricks (with both one and two &#8220;traditional&#8221; yo-yos, as well as using a Chinese yo-yo), some cool spinning top tricks and juggling. \u00a0But he didn&#8217;t limit things to juggling balls &#8211; he did do that, but added machetes as well as flaming props to the mix! \u00a0All in all, it was a really cool show &#8211; something that both the parents and kids enjoyed. \u00a0And of course, I took a ton of photos&#8230;go figure.<\/p>\n<p>So, below is the set of photos &#8211; 59 in all. \u00a0Click the first one, and flip through them to enjoy some highlights from his show (once the first photo is up, you can either click on the image to advance, or press the arrow keys to move back and forth). \u00a0A huge thanks to Mrs. Slate at the Library for putting these shows on &#8211; I know my kids have enjoyed them all! \u00a0Oh, yeah, and we should be back to the railroad stuff in the next post.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for stopping by and looking!<br \/>\nTom<\/p>\n[AFG_gallery id=&#8217;20&#8217;]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the summers here in Lebanon, the town library (Jonathan Trumbull Library) usually has events for the kids every week, ranging from crafts to movies to animal demonstrations to performers. \u00a0This week&#8217;s act needed a little larger venue to perform some of his act &#8211; since it involved sharp objects and fire. \u00a0So instead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14,546,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-3375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-event-photography","8":"tag-connecticut","9":"tag-jonathan-trumbull-library","10":"tag-lebanon","11":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/9457330443_8831b3390a_q.jpg?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}