{"id":20063,"date":"2015-07-03T11:55:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T15:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=20063"},"modified":"2015-07-03T11:58:38","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T15:58:38","slug":"i-am-still-groot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/03\/i-am-still-groot\/","title":{"rendered":"I am STILL Groot!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2015\/06\/08\/i-am-groot\/\">last month during the Nebula Awards banquet<\/a>, I accepted the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation on behalf of <em>Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em>. And in doing so, I used only three words.<\/p>\n<p>Though I was allowed to hang on to the beautiful (and extremely heavy) trophy during the evening to pose for post-ceremony photos, I eventually had to relinquish the thing so it could be sent on to the folks who&#8217;d actually <em>created<\/em> the film. Which is a shame, because it&#8217;s one of more beautiful trophies I&#8217;ve had the privilege to accept on behalf of others.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why, when I saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jgunn\/photos\/a.10151506439691157.1073741825.48103536156\/10152783263336157\/?type=1&#038;theater\">director James Gunn announce yesterday<\/a> that he&#8217;d received the award from SFWA, I couldn&#8217;t resist cobbling together this &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ScottEdelmanJamesGunnGrootMeme.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ScottEdelmanJamesGunnGrootMeme-129x300.jpg\" alt=\"ScottEdelmanJamesGunnGrootMeme\" width=\"129\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ScottEdelmanJamesGunnGrootMeme-129x300.jpg 129w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ScottEdelmanJamesGunnGrootMeme-439x1024.jpg 439w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ScottEdelmanJamesGunnGrootMeme.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 129px) 100vw, 129px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, being Groot just has to be its own reward &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know, last month during the Nebula Awards banquet, I accepted the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation on behalf of Guardians of the Galaxy. And in doing so, I used only three words. Though I was allowed to hang on to the beautiful (and extremely heavy) trophy during the evening to [&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":[675,14],"class_list":["post-20063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-james-gunn","tag-nebula-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20063"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20072,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20063\/revisions\/20072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}