{"id":3998,"date":"2012-08-25T19:09:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T17:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astroblastro.com\/?p=3998"},"modified":"2012-08-25T19:09:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T17:09:14","slug":"aurochs-and-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=3998","title":{"rendered":"Aurochs and Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">I saw a beautiful movie this weekend, Beasts of the Southern Wild. It&#8217;s completely emotional and magical and I\u00a0recommend\u00a0getting to a theater if you can find it playing and seeing it. Set in the\u00a0disappearing Louisiana bayou and told from the perspective of an six year old girl. She&#8217;s living with her father in a doomed shanty town that they call The Bathtub. It&#8217;s an incredible story, but the\u00a0geography\u00a0is real and so are the consequences for the people who live there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here is a short documentary\u00a0about the\u00a0Isle de Jean Charles. It&#8217;s worth a look.<\/p>\n<div class=\"hang-2-column\" style=\"width:620px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Last Stand on the Island\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/21713580?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<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The movie has a very imaginative and homemade quality about it. It stars community\u00a0actors and was shot on 16mm film, it&#8217;s the work of American director Benh Zeitlin. If you&#8217;re curious you can watch his short film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c2hBZToDSbM\">Glory at Sea<\/a>, it shares a lot of the\u00a0magical elements and themes of Beasts.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a beautiful movie this weekend, Beasts of the Southern Wild. It&#8217;s completely emotional and magical and I\u00a0recommend\u00a0getting to a theater if you can find it playing and seeing it. Set in the\u00a0disappearing Louisiana bayou and told from the perspective of an six year old girl. She&#8217;s living with her father in a doomed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,15],"tags":[220],"class_list":["post-3998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-video","tag-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998","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=3998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4000,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions\/4000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}