{"id":4956,"date":"2002-06-12T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-12T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2002\/06\/12\/godzilla-becomes-art\/"},"modified":"2002-06-12T10:52:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-12T14:52:00","slug":"godzilla-becomes-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/godzilla-becomes-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Godzilla Becomes Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2002\/TRAVEL\/NEWS\/06\/10\/godzilla.art.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a> reports that Taro Okamoto Museum of Art in the Tokyo suburb of Kawasaki has recently opened an exhibit entitled &#8220;Since Godzilla,&#8221; devoted to paying homage to the king of monsters as fine art. Museum curator Hiroshi Ohsugi says of the exhibit, &#8220;Godzilla&#8230; [is] a cultural phenomenon, not just a pop icon of lowbrow thrills.&#8221;  &#8220;Godzilla, like all true art, is a &#8216;kind of mirror&#8217; on society,&#8221; filled with political messages and social concerns that reflect 50 years of Japanese cultural history.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsservice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Service<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reports that Taro Okamoto Museum of Art in the Tokyo suburb of Kawasaki has recently opened an exhibit entitled &#8220;Since Godzilla,&#8221; devoted to paying homage to the king of monsters as fine art. Museum curator Hiroshi Ohsugi says of the exhibit, &#8220;Godzilla&#8230; [is] a cultural phenomenon, not just a pop icon of lowbrow thrills.&#8221; [&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-4956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}