{"id":3964,"date":"2006-01-06T23:36:33","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T23:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=3964"},"modified":"2006-01-06T23:36:33","modified_gmt":"2006-01-06T23:36:33","slug":"bransons-virgin-comics-and-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/bransons-virgin-comics-and-animation\/","title":{"rendered":"Branson&#8217;s Virgin Comics and Animation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the one hand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/mt-archives\/004802.php\">Mr Branson wants to start a  spaceport<\/a> and in the other he wants to start up a new comics oriented enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if those hands will come together somehow.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blocked\">Mr Chopra was named one of Time Magazine&#8217;s 100 heroes and icons of the century. He is a best-selling and prolific self-help author, penning more than 40 books. Mr Kapur gained world attention with the Indian film Bandit Queen and went on to direct the Oscar-nominated Elizabeth. He is also co-producer of the West End musical Bombay Dreams.<\/p>\n<p>He described comics as being part of the &#8220;brave new world&#8221; of entertainment. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/business.guardian.co.uk\/story\/0,16781,1681056,00.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">Comic book characters are the new cult; the new religion<\/a>.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flirble.org\/mailman\/listinfo\/badsignal\" class=\"external external_icon\">Bad Signal<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the one hand Mr Branson wants to start a spaceport and in the other he wants to start up a new comics oriented enterprise. I wonder if those hands will come together somehow. Mr Chopra was named one of Time Magazine&#8217;s 100 heroes and icons of the century. He is a best-selling and prolific [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}