{"id":286,"date":"2005-10-11T15:06:55","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T22:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=286"},"modified":"2019-01-10T18:58:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T18:58:00","slug":"aarman-studios-home-of-wallace-and-gromit-has-burnt-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/11\/aarman-studios-home-of-wallace-and-gromit-has-burnt-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Aarman Studios, home of Wallace and Gromit, has burnt down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, this is true: The roof and three interior walls of the Aardman Animations building in Bristol, west England collapsed after a blaze tore through the Victorian building. The company behind the new &#8220;Wallace and Gromit&#8221; film said Monday its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/SHOWBIZ\/Movies\/10\/10\/aardman.fire\/index.html\">&#8220;entire history&#8221; has been destroyed in a fire<\/a> at a warehouse containing props and sets.<\/p>\n<p>This is very sad news for a great company founded and run by some great artists. That being said, Wallace and Gromit&#8217;s creator, Nick Park, said the earthquake in South Asia helped put the loss into perspective. &#8220;Even though it is a precious and nostalgic collection and valuable to the company, in light of other tragedies, today isn&#8217;t a big deal,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>I would say that having your entire professional creative life wiped out <em>is<\/em> a big deal, earthquake or no earthquake. Its okay to be very upset, earthquake or no earthquake. What really matters is the proverbial &#8220;where do you go from here?&#8221; and it looks as if Mr. Park will not let this loss consume him which is good, especially for those who hope to see more W&amp;G in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, this is true: The roof and three interior walls of the Aardman Animations building in Bristol, west England collapsed after a blaze tore through the Victorian building. The company behind the new &#8220;Wallace and Gromit&#8221; film said Monday its &#8220;entire history&#8221; has been destroyed in a fire at a warehouse containing props and sets. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[422,518,660],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-movies","tag-puppets","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4069,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/4069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}