{"id":219926,"date":"2025-10-12T20:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T20:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/219926\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T20:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T20:22:07","slug":"matt-groening-on-the-simpsons-turning-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/219926\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Groening on &#8220;The Simpsons&#8221; turning 37"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cartoonist Matt Groening had no idea his one-off animated episode of &#8220;The Simpsons&#8221; in 1987 would become America&#8217;s longest-running sitcom, now beginning its 37th season. Seth Doane talks with Groening about the show&#8217;s enduring appeal (and propensity to predict the future), and visits the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France, where the art of animation is celebrated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cartoonist Matt Groening had no idea his one-off animated episode of &#8220;The Simpsons&#8221; in 1987 would become America&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[123965,88,32274,123964,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-219926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-annecy-international-animated-film-festival","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-matt-groening","11":"tag-seth-doane","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}