{"id":8586,"date":"2003-09-04T21:09:26","date_gmt":"2003-09-05T02:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/09\/04\/honorary-doctorate-for-richard-taylor\/"},"modified":"2003-09-04T21:09:26","modified_gmt":"2003-09-05T02:09:26","slug":"honorary-doctorate-for-richard-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/09\/04\/8586-honorary-doctorate-for-richard-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Honorary Doctorate for Richard Taylor!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/scrapbook\/movies\/crew\/richard_taylor\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img-www.theonering.net\/images\/scrapbook\/b\/3772_b.jpg\" hspace=\"3\" width=\"78\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Richard Taylor with 'Oscar'\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><\/a><br \/><font size=1>Richard Taylor with &#8216;Oscar&#8217;<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Wellington&#8217;s double-Oscar winning special effects whiz Richard Taylor will receive an honorary Doctor of Literature degree from Victoria University.  Mr Taylor is the co-founder of Weta Workshop and Weta Digital, one of the most successful special effects studios in the world which produced the award-winning effects for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. Victoria University vice-chancellor Stuart McCutcheon said Mr Taylor had overcome many hurdles to become an internationally recognised leader in design and was a worthy recipient of an honorary doctorate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Taylor with &#8216;Oscar&#8217; Wellington&#8217;s double-Oscar winning special effects whiz Richard Taylor will receive an honorary Doctor of&#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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-2eu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8586","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=8586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}