{"id":870,"date":"2008-08-25T18:03:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T23:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=870"},"modified":"2018-11-13T00:52:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T19:52:02","slug":"meeting-the-walrus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/meeting-the-walrus\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting the Walrus&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swissmiss.typepad.com\/weblog\/2008\/08\/i-met-the-walru.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/walrus_437.png\" alt=\"walrus_437.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>(from <\/em>SwissMiss<em>; thanks <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/muhsashum.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adrian<\/a><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon\u2019s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon\u2019s every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries the terrifyingly genius pen work of James Braithwaite with masterful digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon\u2019s boundless wit, and timeless message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the moment\u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jmR0V6s3NKk\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and get the back-story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imetthewalrus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(from SwissMiss; thanks Adrian) \u201cIn 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon\u2019s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,9,12,14,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16801,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions\/16801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}