{"id":373,"date":"2006-07-19T16:31:35","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T15:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=373"},"modified":"2006-07-19T16:33:02","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T15:33:02","slug":"the-science-of-cute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"The Science of Cute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Warner Brothers came up with a formula for cuteness, <a href=\"http:\/\/mfrost.typepad.com\/cute_overload\/2006\/07\/the_cute_charac.html\">a graphical version can be seen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What I find interesting about this is that I don&#8217;t really respond very well to Warner Brothers&#8217; characters. I find them ingratiating, like they are trying too hard to be cute. Maybe that&#8217;s not so much about the visual style as it is the movements and the personalities that they are given; they are usually quite mature in their cynicism, which potentially clashes with their cute styling, making the appearence seem false.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone here think that the Warner characters are cute?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Warner Brothers came up with a formula for cuteness, a graphical version can be seen here. What I find interesting about this is that I don&#8217;t really respond very well to Warner Brothers&#8217; characters. I find them ingratiating, like they are trying too hard to be cute. Maybe that&#8217;s not so much about the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=373\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Science of Cute<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5bQqr-61","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}