{"id":20494,"date":"2018-06-13T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=20494"},"modified":"2018-06-10T10:35:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T14:35:16","slug":"george-romeros-tribute-statue-gets-perfect-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=20494","title":{"rendered":"George Romero&#8217;s Tribute Statue Gets Perfect Location!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2018\/z061318romero_bust.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"744\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you were going to decide on the perfect place for this bust of George Romero, the man who re-invented and re-invigorated the zombie movie genre, where would it be?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you asked me (and no one did) I&#8217;d say the mall where the original <em>Dawn of the Dead<\/em> was filmed.\u00a0 Guess what?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Monroeville Mall in Pittsburgh, Pennsylania just got 1000% times more in touch with it&#8217;s creepshow roots. A large copper bust of indie horror director (and grandfather of the genre) George A. Romero was finally installed&#8230; in the very shopping center that served as the location for much of his &#8216;birth of the modern zombie&#8217; classic, 1978&#8217;s Dawn of the Dead.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/george-romero-finally-gets-a-statue-at-the-mall-from-dawn-of-the-dead\">SyFy Wire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were going to decide on the perfect place for this bust of George Romero, the man who re-invented<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[58,17,53,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20497,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20494\/revisions\/20497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}