{"id":760807,"date":"2019-12-09T08:44:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T08:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/09\/sesame-street-puppeteer-caroll-spinney-dies-at-85\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T08:44:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T08:44:09","slug":"sesame-street-puppeteer-caroll-spinney-dies-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/09\/sesame-street-puppeteer-caroll-spinney-dies-at-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Sesame Street Puppeteer Caroll Spinney Dies At 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_729139\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-729139\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-729139\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/carroll-spinney.jpg\" alt=\"Caroll Spinney\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-729139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caroll Spinney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\">\u00a0Sesame Street puppeteer, Caroll Spinney, is dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\">According to reports, Spinney, who created Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch,\u00a0 died at his home in Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\">He was 85.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0Star Wars actor Peter Mayhew is dead!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The sad news was announced on the official Sesame Workshop website.<\/p>\n<p>Spinney\u2019s longtime colleague and the show\u2019s co-founder Joan Ganz Cooney said: \u201cCaroll Spinney\u2019s contributions to Sesame Street are countless.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe not only gave us Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, but he also gave so much of himself as well. We at Sesame Workshop mourn his passing and feel immense gratitude for all he has given to Sesame Street and to children around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Sesame Street<\/em>\u00a0recently celebrated its 50th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caroll Spinney \u00a0Sesame Street puppeteer, Caroll Spinney, is dead. According to reports, Spinney, who created Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch,\u00a0 died at his home in Connecticut. He was 85. Read Also:\u00a0Star Wars actor Peter Mayhew is dead! The sad news was announced on the official Sesame Workshop website. Spinney\u2019s longtime colleague and the show\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":760808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nollywood"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sesame Street Puppeteer Caroll Spinney Dies At 85 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/09\/sesame-street-puppeteer-caroll-spinney-dies-at-85\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Sesame Street Puppeteer Caroll Spinney Dies At 85 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Caroll Spinney \u00a0Sesame Street puppeteer, Caroll Spinney, is dead. 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