{"id":4844,"date":"2003-12-01T21:47:51","date_gmt":"2003-12-02T05:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/01\/4844\/"},"modified":"2003-12-01T21:47:51","modified_gmt":"2003-12-02T05:47:51","slug":"rankin-bass-productions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=4844","title":{"rendered":"Rankin \/ Bass Productions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rankinbass.com\">Rankin \/ Bass Productions<\/a> is the company that brought you all those cheesey Christmas specials with the stop-motion animation.<\/p>\n<p \/>\nHere&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/rankinbass.com\/tvspeclista.htm\">list of TV Specials<\/a>, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0066327\/\">one with the wooden Fred Astaire<\/a>.  For some reason I always think Dick Van Dyke did one, probably because of the enormous chin on the Fred Astaire puppet.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Rankin \/ Bass also did &#8220;Thundercats&#8221; and &#8220;The Hobbit.&#8221;<br \/>\n  Web link of note: <a HREF='http:\/\/www.rankinbass.com'>Rankin \/ Bass Productions<\/a><br \/>\n(At http:\/\/www.rankinbass.com)<\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rankin \/ Bass Productions is the company that brought you all those cheesey Christmas specials with the stop-motion animation. Here&#8217;s a list of TV Specials, including the one with the wooden Fred Astaire. For some reason I always think Dick Van Dyke did one, probably because of the enormous chin on the Fred Astaire puppet. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}