{"id":1655,"date":"2026-04-02T15:30:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nova-ps.com\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2026-04-06T11:43:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:43:50","slug":"animation-legend-willie-ito-on-disney-hanna-barbera-and-the-two-decade-journey-of-hello-maggie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nova-ps.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/animation-legend-willie-ito-on-disney-hanna-barbera-and-the-two-decade-journey-of-hello-maggie\/","title":{"rendered":"Animation Legend Willie Ito on Disney, Hanna-Barbera, and the two-decade journey of Hello Maggie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsbeat.com\/wca-26-animation-legend-willie-ito-on-disney-hanna-barbera-and-the-two-decade-journey-of-hello-maggie\/\" title=\"Animation Legend Willie Ito on Disney, Hanna-Barbera, and the two-decade journey of Hello Maggie\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"696\" height=\"406\" src=\"http:\/\/nova-ps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/HelloMaggie-1000x583-1.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin: auto;margin-bottom: 10px;max-width: 100%\" data-attachment-id=\"568872\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.comicsbeat.com\/wca-26-animation-legend-willie-ito-on-disney-hanna-barbera-and-the-two-decade-journey-of-hello-maggie\/hellomaggie\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.comicsbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HelloMaggie.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,700\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"HelloMaggie\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.comicsbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HelloMaggie-300x175.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/nova-ps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/HelloMaggie-1000x583-1.jpg\" \/><\/a>Willie Ito was ready to retire in 1999 after a 50-year career at the world&#8217;s biggest animation studios. Instead, he spent the next two decades bringing a deeply personal story of the Japanese American incarceration to the screen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willie Ito was ready to retire in 1999 after a 50-year career at the world&#8217;s biggest animation studios. Instead, he spent the next two decades bringing a deeply personal story of the Japanese American incarceration to the screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nova-ps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nova-ps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nova-ps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nova-ps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nova-ps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nova-ps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1658,"href":"http:\/\/nova-ps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions\/1658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nova-ps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nova-ps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nova-ps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nova-ps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}