{"id":1478,"date":"2002-06-24T00:52:51","date_gmt":"2002-06-24T00:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2002-06-24T00:52:51","modified_gmt":"2002-06-24T00:52:51","slug":"some_hope_for_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=1478","title":{"rendered":"Some hope for american cartoons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>I had been waiting for Warner Brothers to re-release <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005Y71K\/lifelistedchr-20\">Batman Beyond &#8211; Return of the Joker<\/A>.  When they first released it on DVD they&#8217;d made a number of edits to make it more &#8216;kid friendly&#8217;.  Needless to say, people were upset.<\/P><\/p>\n<p \/><P>Friday I saw that it had finally come out and decided to pick up a copy.  I watched it this morning and I have to say it&#8217;s quite good.  It&#8217;s features like this that give me hope for american animation.  For the record, I think there actually is a lot of good american animation, but there still tends to be the feeling that cartoons are for kids.  So you don&#8217;t have a lot of animated featues targetted at an older audience.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had been waiting for Warner Brothers to re-release Batman Beyond &#8211; Return of the Joker. When they first released it on DVD they&#8217;d made a number of edits to make it more &#8216;kid friendly&#8217;. Needless to say, people were upset. Friday I saw that it had finally come out and decided to pick up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}