{"id":2186,"date":"2017-02-16T18:13:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T22:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2017-02-16T18:14:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T22:14:46","slug":"my-2016-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=2186","title":{"rendered":"My 2016 favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My 6th annual &#8220;Year&#8217;s Best&#8221; selections are here! Much more important than all those silly award shows on TV and such, my collection of opinions shall go down in history as a paragon of artistic truth. As usual, for books, the nominees are books I finished reading for the first time in 2016, regardless of their publication date. Movies and film scores must have been first released in the USA in 2016.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Year&#8217;s best live action film:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2192\" src=\"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/HacksawRidge.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/HacksawRidge.png 300w, http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/HacksawRidge-202x300.png 202w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Year&#8217;s best animated film:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2191\" src=\"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/KFP3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/KFP3.png 300w, http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/KFP3-202x300.png 202w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Year&#8217;s best film score:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2188\" src=\"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/boyandbeast.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/boyandbeast.png 300w, http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/boyandbeast-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/boyandbeast-160x160.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Year&#8217;s best nonfiction book:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2187\" src=\"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/writingdownthedragon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/writingdownthedragon.png 224w, http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/writingdownthedragon-194x300.png 194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Year&#8217;s best fiction book:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2190\" src=\"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/monstercalls.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/monstercalls.png 300w, http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/monstercalls-230x300.png 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Year&#8217;s best TV show:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2189\" src=\"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ST-S1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ST-S1.png 300w, http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ST-S1-202x300.png 202w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 6th annual &#8220;Year&#8217;s Best&#8221; selections are here! Much more important than all those silly award shows on TV and such, my collection of opinions shall go down in history as a paragon of artistic truth. As usual, for books, the nominees are books I finished reading for the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[339],"tags":[734,760,761,763,762],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-zg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2196,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions\/2196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}