{"id":10807,"date":"2014-03-25T13:18:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T20:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=10807"},"modified":"2014-03-25T13:19:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T20:19:47","slug":"stephen-kings-battleground-short-story-animated-in-soviet-era-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2014\/03\/25\/stephen-kings-battleground-short-story-animated-in-soviet-era-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen King&#8217;s &#8216;Battleground&#8217; Short Story Animated in Soviet Era Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Battleground.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Battleground\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Battleground.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a 1986 adaptation of a Stephen King short story called &#8216;Battleground.&#8217; It was produced by the Soviet Ukrainian Kievnauchfilm studio, which was primarily a documentary outfit during the Soviet era. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the studio became the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinema.kiev.ua\/\">National Cinematheque of Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The story concerns a seemingly innocuous package that turns out to contain an invading force of toy soldiers. One man wages a battle for survival against what he assumes is an inferior opponent.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G0o_2PPsBw0?rel=0\" height=\"469\" width=\"625\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a 1986 adaptation of a Stephen King short story called &#8216;Battleground.&#8217; It was produced by the Soviet Ukrainian Kievnauchfilm studio, which was primarily a documentary outfit during the Soviet era. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the studio became the National Cinematheque of Ukraine. The story concerns a seemingly innocuous package that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2380],"tags":[2403,833,1590,2370,2323],"class_list":["post-10807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-soviet-film","tag-battleground","tag-russia","tag-soviet-union","tag-stephen-king","tag-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10807"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10812,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10807\/revisions\/10812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}