{"id":235,"date":"2011-05-20T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jugglingarchives.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2011-05-20T12:00:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T12:00:01","slug":"24-june-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jugglingarchives.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/20\/24-june-article\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Weiland at Sunderland Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Weiland, &#8220;America&#8217;s Funniest Juggler&#8221; performed at the Sunderland Empire for the week of 15 March 1909:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_242\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-242\" style=\"width: 164px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jugglingarchives.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SDC10310-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-242\" title=\"The Great Weiland at Sunderland Empire Poster\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jugglingarchives.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SDC10310-small-164x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Great Weiland at Sunderland Empire Poster - From Tyne &amp; Wear Archives\" width=\"164\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Tyne &amp; Wear Archives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My brain is playing tricks on me &#8211; I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve seen references to him all over the place, but all I can find is this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fultonhistory.com\/Process%20small\/Newspapers\/New%20York%20NY%20Clipper%201853%20-%201924\/New%20York%20NY%20Clipper%201912-1913.pdf\/New%20York%20NY%20Clipper%201912-1913%20-%200243.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">6 April 1912 article from the New York Clipper<\/a> (towards the bottom of the final column) were we see The Great Weiland  appearing in Birmingham at the Grand alongside the great magician Chung  Ling Soo.<\/p>\n<p>There are poster prints of a cartoon of Weiland available form lots of sources around the internet &#8211; you can see an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.art.co.uk\/products\/p4133944514-sa-i4763364\/posters.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">example at art.com<\/a>. Can you help my faulty memory?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Weiland, &#8220;America&#8217;s Funniest Juggler&#8221; performed at the Sunderland Empire for the week of 15 March 1909: My brain is playing tricks on me &#8211; I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve seen references to him all over the place, but all I can find is this 6 April 1912 article from the New York Clipper (towards the bottom of the final column) were we see The Great Weiland appearing in Birmingham at the Grand alongside the great magician Chung Ling Soo. There are poster prints of a cartoon of Weiland available form lots of sources around the internet &#8211; you can see <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jugglingarchives.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/20\/24-june-article\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  The Great Weiland at Sunderland Empire<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,73,74,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-41","category-sunderland","category-sunderland-empire","category-the-great-weiland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jugglingarchives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jugglingarchives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jugglingarchives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jugglingarchives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jugglingarchives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jugglingarchives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jugglingarchives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jugglingarchives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jugglingarchives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}