{"id":1952,"date":"2018-07-06T10:32:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T14:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2018-07-06T10:32:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T14:32:43","slug":"taika-waititi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2018\/07\/06\/taika-waititi\/","title":{"rendered":"Taika Waititi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tSo I had sort of half-seen references to the upcoming film\u00a0<em>Jojo Rabbit<\/em>\u00a0flashing by on social media and just today <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jojo_Rabbit\">looked up the summary<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jojo Rabbit is a young boy living during World War II. His only escapism is through his imaginary friend, an ethnically inaccurate version of Adolf Hitler, who pushes the young boy&#8217;s naive patriotic beliefs. However, this all changes when a young girl challenges those views and causes Jojo to face his own issues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What? I&#8217;m sorry, <em>what<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>You can read a little more about it <a href=\"https:\/\/thefilmstage.com\/news\/first-look-at-taika-waititi-as-hitler-in-his-anti-war-satire-jojo-rabbit\/\">here<\/a>, looks like:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefilmstage.com\/news\/first-look-at-taika-waititi-as-hitler-in-his-anti-war-satire-jojo-rabbit\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1953 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/06\/Taika-Waititi-620x414-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure it will be&#8230;interesting? I&#8217;m not sure. I mean it has to be good, right? Taika Waititi can do no wrong. Right?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1954\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/06\/giphy-300x254.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, check out <em>Eagle vs. Shark<\/em> (HU DVD 13999) or\u00a0<em>What we do in the shadows<\/em> (HU DVD 12447), because I&#8217;ve been told I plugged <em>Hunt for the Wilderpeople<\/em> (HU DVD 13531) too many times and need to branch out.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I had sort of half-seen references to the upcoming film\u00a0Jojo Rabbit\u00a0flashing by on social media and just today looked up the summary: Jojo Rabbit is a young boy living during World War II. His only escapism is through his imaginary friend, an ethnically inaccurate version of Adolf Hitler, who pushes the young boy&#8217;s naive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[340,374,375,396],"class_list":["post-1952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-taika-waititi","tag-upcoming-films","tag-upcoming-movies","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}