{"id":174402,"date":"2021-09-03T07:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=174402"},"modified":"2021-06-22T10:27:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T14:27:01","slug":"uconn-magazine-the-grouchs-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2021\/09\/uconn-magazine-the-grouchs-girlfriend\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Magazine: The Grouch&#8217;s Girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Pam Arciero auditioned to be a puppeteer on \u201cSesame Street,\u201d she quickly saw it wouldn\u2019t be a one-day audition; it would involve weekly workshops over four months. Three hundred people were part of that first workshop to fill the role of Grundgetta, Oscar the Grouch\u2019s significant other, and each week, fewer and fewer people were asked back.<\/p>\n<p>On the last day it was down to Arciero and one other person. She walked into the room and there were Jim Henson and many of the key people who created \u201cSesame Street.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the most intimidating room \u2013 they were the nicest people \u2013 but knowing who they were and being a young person auditioning, it was pretty scary,\u201d says Arciero. \u201cIt was also tremendous. Jim Henson was very fun to work with, always.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was 38 years ago. Today Arciero is still Grundgetta. She\u2019s also played \u201ccats and bats, goats and birds, and any kind of animal or monster you can imagine. That variety is part of the joy of the job,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2021\/06\/22\/the-grouchs-girlfriend\/\">Read on for more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Grundgetta, the Grouch\u2019s forever girlfriend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":174403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,1711,1914,2235,102],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-174402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-arts-culture","category-sfa","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-magazine"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 11:11:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174406,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174402\/revisions\/174406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/174403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174402"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=174402"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=174402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}