{"id":3886,"date":"2012-05-16T19:28:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T17:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astroblastro.com\/?p=3886"},"modified":"2012-05-16T19:28:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T17:28:23","slug":"ken-burns-on-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=3886","title":{"rendered":"Ken Burns on Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/12\/05\/ken-burns-talks-about-stories\">Direct from Kottke:<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this short film by Sarah Klein and Tom Mason, Ken Burns shares his thoughtful perspective on what makes a good story.<\/p>\n<div class=\"hang-2-column\" style=\"width:620px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ken Burns: On Story\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/40972394?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abraham Lincoln wins the Civil War and then he decides he&#8217;s got enough time to go to the theatre. That&#8217;s a good story. When Thomas Jefferson said &#8220;we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal&#8221;, he owned a hundred human beings and never saw the hypocrisy, never saw the contradiction, and more importantly never saw fit in his lifetime to free any one of them. That&#8217;s a good story.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over at the Atlantic,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/video\/archive\/2012\/05\/ken-burns-on-story\/257165\/\">Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg has an interview with the filmmakers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Direct from Kottke: In this short film by Sarah Klein and Tom Mason, Ken Burns shares his thoughtful perspective on what makes a good story. Abraham Lincoln wins the Civil War and then he decides he&#8217;s got enough time to go to the theatre. That&#8217;s a good story. When Thomas Jefferson said &#8220;we hold these&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[393,394,423],"class_list":["post-3886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video","tag-ken-burns","tag-story","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3981,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions\/3981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}