{"id":4730,"date":"2024-11-20T09:17:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T05:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4730"},"modified":"2024-11-20T08:25:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T04:25:56","slug":"the-wild-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4730","title":{"rendered":"The Wild Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For two months I avoided seeing\u00a0<em>The Wild Robot<\/em> because I figured it would be just a cheap version of\u00a0<em>WALL-E<\/em> or some thinly-veiled criticism of capitalism or America in general.<\/p>\n<p>It is not.<\/p>\n<p>Proof that sometimes the hype really is true, and 50 million theatre-goers (or whatever they&#8217;re up to) can&#8217;t be wrong,\u00a0<em>The Wild Robot<\/em> really is that good.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s beautiful, it&#8217;s inspiring, and appealing, no doubt, to kids from one to 92.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re one of the half dozen people who hasn&#8217;t seen it yet (as I was until this weekend) do yourself a favor.<\/p>\n<p>You won&#8217;t be disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For two months I avoided seeing\u00a0The Wild Robot because I figured it would be just a cheap version of\u00a0WALL-E or some thinly-veiled criticism of capitalism or America in general. It is not. Proof that sometimes the hype really is true, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4730\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4731,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions\/4731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}