{"id":922,"date":"2006-10-12T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2006\/10\/12\/the-man-behind-the-hiro\/"},"modified":"2006-10-12T22:53:14","modified_gmt":"2006-10-13T03:53:14","slug":"the-man-behind-the-hiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2006\/10\/12\/the-man-behind-the-hiro\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Behind the Hiro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve become a quick fan of NBC&#8217;s new superpowered series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/Heroes\/\">Heroes<\/a>, with a particular fondness for the character <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/Heroes\/bios\/hiro.shtml\">Hiro Nakamura<\/a>, a japanese office worker who discovers he can control time and space to a limited extent.<\/p>\n<p>The thing that amazes me the most, though, is reading about the actor who plays him, Masi Oka.  Not only has he been in a number of movies and television series, but according to his cast bio:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After graduating from Brown University with degrees in mathematics and computer science and a theatre arts minor, Oka pursued an acting career while taking his first job at George Lucas&#8217; Oscar-winning special effects house Industrial Light &#038; Magic.<\/p>\n<p>Today, despite his successful career as an actor, he continues to provide ILM with technology for groundbreaking effects for more than 30 films.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve become a quick fan of NBC&#8217;s new superpowered series Heroes, with a particular fondness for the character Hiro Nakamura, a japanese office worker who discovers he can control time and space to a limited extent. The thing that amazes me the most, though, is reading about the actor who plays him, Masi Oka. Not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2006\/10\/12\/the-man-behind-the-hiro\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Man Behind the Hiro&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}