{"id":1280,"date":"2011-02-07T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:33:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:33:46","slug":"things-which-cheer-me-ridiculously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1280","title":{"rendered":"Things Which Cheer Me Ridiculously"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_nIccA6r7lXY\/TVAasc8AFxI\/AAAAAAAACA4\/mlQhhe99CW4\/s1600\/Shaun_squee.jpg\" target=_blank title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Shaun_squee.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Long before I reached these green and soggy isles, I was a big Aardman fan. We watched all manner of Wallace &#038; Gromit movies, loved the bizarre <i>Creature Comforts<\/i> series and various bootlegged shorts from the UK. One of the more fun things about moving here was happily watching <i>Shaun the Sheep<\/i> after a day of work. (Oh, cartoon hour is a fine thing.)<\/p>\n<p>Well, I am happy to tell you that one day (probably in 2013-14*) you, too, may watch Shaun from the comfort of your own movie theater. Yes. Aardman announced that there is going to be a big-screen film.<\/p>\n<p>Color me ridiculously happy.<\/p>\n<p>*Even computer animation takes forever &#8212; but stop motion clay animation takes EONS. However, Aardman Animations is simply the best, so it&#8217;s worth the wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before I reached these green and soggy isles, I was a big Aardman fan. We watched all manner of Wallace &#038; Gromit movies,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random-notes-and-errata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6417,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions\/6417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}