{"id":98,"date":"2017-04-17T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2017\/04\/17\/10-years-of-laika\/"},"modified":"2017-04-17T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T22:24:00","slug":"10-years-of-laika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2017\/04\/17\/10-years-of-laika\/","title":{"rendered":"10 years of LAIKA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tOver the weekend, I was completely blown away by LAIKA&#8217;s <i>Kubo and the Two Strings<\/i> (<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.wrlc.org\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=16651072\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HU&nbsp;DVD 13637<\/a>). As an animation studio, LAIKA creates some of the grandest and unique worlds in film. <i>Kubo<\/i> is an incredible accomplishment, and an example of the offbeat humor, powerful storytelling, and, of course, artistic prowess LAIKA has come to be known for.<\/p>\n<p>LAIKA is currently celebrating their 10 year anniversary:<\/p>\n<p>Come to Media Services to check out <i>Kubo<\/i>, or LAIKA&#8217;s three other feature length films: <i>The Boxtrolls<\/i> (<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.wrlc.org\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=14270176\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HU DVD 11911<\/a>), <i>ParaNorman<\/i> (<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.wrlc.org\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=12605321\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HU DVD 11030<\/a>), and <i>Coraline<\/i> (<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.wrlc.org\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=8177817\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HU DVD 7449<\/a>).\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, I was completely blown away by LAIKA&#8217;s Kubo and the Two Strings (HU&nbsp;DVD 13637). As an animation studio, LAIKA creates some of the grandest and unique worlds in film. Kubo is an incredible accomplishment, and an example of the offbeat humor, powerful storytelling, and, of course, artistic prowess LAIKA has come to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}