{"id":705,"date":"2012-06-14T18:45:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T01:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/?p=705"},"modified":"2012-06-14T19:55:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T02:55:50","slug":"madagascar-fans-at-the-jardim-botanico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/madagascar-fans-at-the-jardim-botanico\/","title":{"rendered":"Madagascar fans at the Jardim Botanico"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cassidy\/7373452980\/\" title=\"At the Jardim Botanico\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7231\/7373452980_c3b7e0cc96.jpg\" alt=\"At the Jardim Botanico by otherthings\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We were taking a stroll through Rio de Janeiro&#8217;s gorgeous botanical gardens, when we ran into two big groups of kids on field trips from schools in the area. My lovely wife (and now, apparently, publicist) struck up a conversation with some of the boys, and let slip what I do for a living, and that I knew how to draw Alex the Lion. Next thing I knew, everyone had their cell phones out to take pictures, and I spent about a half hour talking with the kids, and drawing Alex, Marty, Skipper and other characters. They all were apparently big fans of the <i>Madagascar<\/i> series. Everyone was super excited. I even got one of the boys to draw something in my sketchbook. He drew a lovely princess.<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re in the movie business it&#8217;s so easy to get swept up in crtitical reviews and statistics, and obsess over the opportunities you&#8217;ve missed where you could have made this scene or that one work just a little better. It can make you pretty grumpy. So it&#8217;s pretty nice to get a reality check once in a while, and realize that there are kids, all over the world, who simply love what we do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were taking a stroll through Rio de Janeiro&#8217;s gorgeous botanical gardens, when we ran into two big groups of kids on field trips from schools in the area. My lovely wife (and now, apparently, publicist) struck up a conversation with some of the boys, and let slip what I do for a living, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/madagascar-fans-at-the-jardim-botanico\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Madagascar fans at the Jardim Botanico<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,17,26],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-fun","category-personal","category-travel","tag-brazil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}