{"id":264,"date":"2010-03-03T19:16:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T19:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=264"},"modified":"2010-03-03T19:16:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T19:16:08","slug":"of_shiny_statues_and_cat_piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2010\/03\/of_shiny_statues_and_cat_piano\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Shiny Statues and Cat Pianos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> It&#8217;s almost time again for sparkly dresses, borrowed jewelry, and the disbursement of those little gold men! I&#8217;m not usually knowledgeable enough to play the office Oscar pool, but somehow this year I got to watching quite a few of the entries <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscars.org\/press\/pressreleases\/2009\/20091120.html\">shortlisted in the &#8220;best animated short&#8221; category<\/a>.  Lots of inventive stuff in this parade, but I ended up falling for one that didn&#8217;t make the final nominee cut. It has music and cats, however, (also Nick Cave) so I thought I might give it a little love here on the internet. Plus! 8 minutes, no speeches.<\/p>\n<p><center><object height=\"295\" width=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Uj4RBmU-PIo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Uj4RBmU-PIo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"295\" width=\"480\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the animators behind the film <a href=\"http:\/\/catpianofilm.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost time again for sparkly dresses, borrowed jewelry, and the disbursement of those little gold men! I&#8217;m not usually knowledgeable enough to play the office Oscar pool, but somehow this year I got to watching quite a few of the entries shortlisted in the &#8220;best animated short&#8221; category. Lots of inventive stuff in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}