{"id":565,"date":"2008-05-04T07:30:18","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T13:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/2008\/05\/04\/todays-trivia-question\/"},"modified":"2008-05-04T07:30:18","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T13:30:18","slug":"todays-trivia-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-trivia-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s trivia question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who has &#8220;an almost Buddhist sense of nothingness&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/04\/arts\/design\/04shee.html\">Hello Kitty<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Working exclusively in bronze, Mr. Sachs has positioned two 10-foot-tall fountains \u2014 in the form of Hello Kitty and her equally cute friend Miffy \u2014 so that they face Park Avenue and are clearly visible from cabs whizzing by.<\/p>\n<p>He has long been attracted to Hello Kitty, which he describes as a \u201cmerchandising icon\u201d with \u201can almost Buddhist sense of nothingness.\u201d With water spilling from their eyes, the fountain figures are weeping into pools of their own tears.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While we&#8217;re wasting time with the <em>Times<\/em>, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/04\/magazine\/04wwln-domains-t.html\">an interview<\/a> with Pixar writer and director Andrew Stanton, in which he answers a perennial question:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People always ask whether we animate and then add the voices or record the voices and animate. It\u2019s the latter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who has &#8220;an almost Buddhist sense of nothingness&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,34],"tags":[659,684],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosities-and-silly-stuff","category-whatever","tag-curiosities-and-silly-stuff","tag-whatever"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-97","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}