{"id":566,"date":"2005-05-15T03:47:21","date_gmt":"2005-05-15T07:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/?p=566"},"modified":"2007-07-31T08:09:02","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T12:09:02","slug":"promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i>Growing up here in Jerusalem, I think I had a pretty normal childhood. But normal in the Middle East is always intertwined with war.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; B.Z. Goldberg, Co-Producer\/Co-Director and Narrator of <i>Promises<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m having a cry-fest here.<\/p>\n<p>I just saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.promisesproject.org\/\">Promises<\/a>, a movie about children in Israel and Palestine, on Yaser&#8217;s recommendations. Like Hotel Rwanda, some parts of it made me cry. There were scenes where I was laughing as I cried. Not an easy thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s genuine and it&#8217;s amazing. To echo Yaser, <a href=\"http:\/\/ramblingmonologues.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/why-dont-newscasters-crywhen-they-read.html\">Yasmine described it best on her blog<\/a>. If you can get your hands on it, watch it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up here in Jerusalem, I think I had a pretty normal childhood. But normal in the Middle East is always intertwined with war. &#8211; B.Z. Goldberg, Co-Producer\/Co-Director and Narrator of Promises I&#8217;m having a cry-fest here. I just saw Promises, a movie about children in Israel and Palestine, on Yaser&#8217;s recommendations. Like Hotel Rwanda, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-politics","category-comics-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}