{"id":3257,"date":"2009-10-11T13:18:22","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T19:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=3257"},"modified":"2009-10-11T13:18:22","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T19:18:22","slug":"karen-o-wild-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/11\/karen-o-wild-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen O. Wild Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3258 alignright\" title=\"KarenO-wildthings-yeah-yeahs.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/KarenO-wildthings-yeah-yeahs.jpg-150x85.jpg\" alt=\"KarenO-wildthings-yeah-yeahs.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"85\" \/>Okay, I gotta think that most of you guys are fans of the Where the Wild Things Are book (by Maurice Sendak). 10 sentences that wouldn&#8217;t really work if it wasn&#8217;t for the inspired artwork that seems to have captivated a few generations. When I heard a movie was coming, the only reason I didn&#8217;t get angry about such a stupid idea is that Spike Jonze was directing. Then I learned that one of my favorite singers &#8211; Karen O of the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs was doing the soundtrack and accompanying her would be a choir of untrained kids. I&#8217;ve heard the soundtrack, and its brilliant, but I just came across this little &#8220;making of&#8221; video (some tiny movie spoilers involved) showing Karen at work. Inspired stuff, folks. Enter this post to check it out!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"450\" height=\"371\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/y1ddM1ROySA\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"371\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/y1ddM1ROySA\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I gotta think that most of you guys are fans of the Where the Wild Things Are book (by Maurice Sendak). 10 sentences that wouldn&#8217;t really work if it wasn&#8217;t for the inspired artwork that seems to have captivated a few generations. When I heard a movie was coming, the only reason I didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}