{"id":678,"date":"2021-01-15T16:55:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T16:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/?p=678"},"modified":"2021-01-15T16:56:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T16:56:39","slug":"the-hobbit-1977-animated-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"The Hobbit (1977 Animated Film)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A short clip of an encounter with Smaug from the 1977 animated Rankin\/Bass <em>Hobbit<\/em> film. \u00a0Despite a few flaws, I believe this animated version to be much closer in style and aesthetics to Tolkien&#8217;s book (as opposed to Peter Jackson&#8217;s live-action take). \u00a0The hand-drawn character designs and backgrounds are incredible:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/17kvIcRtMhM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short clip of an encounter with Smaug from the 1977 animated Rankin\/Bass Hobbit film. \u00a0Despite a few flaws, I believe this animated version to be much closer in style and aesthetics to Tolkien&#8217;s book (as opposed to Peter Jackson&#8217;s live-action take). \u00a0The hand-drawn character&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sassysparky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}