{"id":2334,"date":"2009-12-13T08:19:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T00:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=2334"},"modified":"2009-12-13T08:19:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T00:19:30","slug":"where-the-wild-things-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/13\/where-the-wild-things-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Where The Wild Things Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/wherethewildthingsare.warnerbros.com\/\">Where The Wild Things Are<\/a> a week or so ago.<\/p>\n<p>It was alright&#8230; but it seemed to be really stretching to add depth (and length) to a fairly basic underlying story. That said, Spike Jonze did an excellent job of capturing the same basic childhood emotions and dreams that the original book (and associated nostalgia) focussed upon.<\/p>\n<p>I saw this video on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/\">The Onion<\/a> today, and it made me think of the hype surrounding the movie:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"430\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/themes\/common\/assets\/onn_embed\/embedded_player.swf?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theonion.com%2Fcontent%2Ffiles%2Fimages%2FCHILDRENS_BOOK_ARTICLE_12_3.jpg&#038;videoid=99744&#038;title=Adults%20Go%20Wild%20Over%20Latest%20In%20Children's%20Picture%20Book%20Series\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><\/object><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/video\/adults_go_wild_over_latest_in?utm_source=videoembed\">Adults Go Wild Over Latest In Children&#8217;s Picture Book Series<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Onion is awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw Where The Wild Things Are a week or so ago. It was alright&#8230; but it seemed to be really stretching to add depth (and length) to a fairly basic underlying story. That said, Spike Jonze did an excellent job of capturing the same basic childhood emotions and dreams that the original book (and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/13\/where-the-wild-things-are\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Where The Wild Things Are&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-BE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2336,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions\/2336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}