{"id":5564,"date":"2014-03-08T18:23:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T03:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=5564"},"modified":"2014-03-08T19:19:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T03:19:42","slug":"weekend-extra-poodies-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2014\/03\/weekend-extra-poodies-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Extra: Poodie&#8217;s Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;ylqITQpsqXjiYLIeYMoqRuEy6UASXOH9&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/pood_front.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/pood_front.jpg\" alt=\"pood_front\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5565\" \/><\/a>Speaking of <em>Poodie James<\/em> (see the previous post), if you have read the novel you might like to see a bit of the town and valley that bear a not entirely coincidental resemblance to the book\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s locale. I just watched a short promotional video made by Charley Voorhis and his colleagues at an outfit called Voortex Productions. I had never heard of Voortex until a friend sent me a link to this little film. I am impressed with the shooting, editing, post-production and story-telling skill that went into it.  I plan to see more of their work. The fact that the film made me nostalgic for the town where I grew up has nothing to do with my assessment of the video. See what you think. If you can, watch it full screen, then press <strong>esc<\/strong> and see the special <em>Poodie<\/em> offer at the end of the post.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/88411706?title=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"415\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/88411706\">We are Wenatchee<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/voortexproductions\">Voortex Productions<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>If you have not read <em>Poodie James<\/em>, we can arrange that. For <em>Rifftides<\/em> readers, we have a special price and free shipping. For details, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/purchase-dougs-books\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>. Hey, if a guy can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t use his blog for shameless self-promotion, what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s it good for? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;ylqITQpsqXjiYLIeYMoqRuEy6UASXOH9&#8243;] Speaking of Poodie James (see the previous post), if you have read the novel you might like to see a bit of the town and valley that bear a not entirely coincidental resemblance to the book\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s locale. I just watched a short promotional video made by Charley Voorhis and his colleagues at an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}