{"id":403,"date":"2007-05-12T11:08:45","date_gmt":"2007-05-12T16:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/05\/12\/wetas-richard-taylor-one-big-kid\/"},"modified":"2007-11-17T14:32:17","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T19:32:17","slug":"wetas-richard-taylor-one-big-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/05\/12\/403-wetas-richard-taylor-one-big-kid\/","title":{"rendered":"Weta&#8217;s Richard Taylor one big kid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Weta Workshop &#8216;s new animated series Jane and the Dragon brings out the playful side of director Richard Taylor. He talks to Grant Smithies. Richard Taylor grins a goofy grin. His eyes shine brightly behind his wire-framed specs. This being New Zealand Music Month, the special-effects whiz and director of Weta Workshop in Wellington is remembering the Kiwi bands that blew his mind as a teenager. The Gordons. Mangaweka Viaduct. The Screaming Meemees. &#8220;My favourite Meemees&#8217; song had a line that went something like, &#8216;My girl&#8217;s got pointy ears, oh yeah, shake shake!&#8217;,&#8221; he says, beaming. [<a target=\"NEW\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/4049973a1869.html\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weta Workshop &#8216;s new animated series Jane and the Dragon brings out the playful side of director Richard&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,130,77,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production-crew-news","category-old-main-news","category-taylor","category-production-weta-workshop"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-6v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}