{"id":2156,"date":"2011-01-08T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2011-04-07T13:23:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T18:23:05","slug":"why-the-wild-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/01\/08\/why-the-wild-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the wild things?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some inexplicable reason, my <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/10\/28\/where-the-wild-things-are\/\">post on Spike Jonze&#8217;s movie Where the Wild Things Are<\/a> keeps getting an inordinate number of hits, seemingly from casual passersby. These are people from all over the world, coming (sometimes) in droves to that one blog post, generally dropping into this blog directly from Google, and I can&#8217;t find any connecting link to an outside source that would account for all that traffic.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s old, and it wasn&#8217;t a particularly substantive post, even compared to some of the other film reviews I&#8217;ve posted here. So why all the interest?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some inexplicable reason, my post on Spike Jonze&#8217;s movie Where the Wild Things Are keeps getting an inordinate number of hits, seemingly from casual passersby. These are people from all over the world, coming (sometimes) in droves to that one blog post, generally dropping into this blog directly from Google, and I can&#8217;t find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":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":[688385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog_stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-yM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1143,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/10\/28\/where-the-wild-things-are\/","url_meta":{"origin":2156,"position":0},"title":"Where the Wild Things Are","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"October 28, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I loved Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are, so I've compiled a list of some useful online resources about the film, book, and author (mostly for my own sake, so I can easily access them if and when I might get around to writing more about it). 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