{"id":116,"date":"2017-01-19T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2017\/01\/19\/see-off-the-obama-presidency-with-southside-with-you\/"},"modified":"2017-01-19T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T18:01:00","slug":"see-off-the-obama-presidency-with-southside-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2017\/01\/19\/see-off-the-obama-presidency-with-southside-with-you\/","title":{"rendered":"See off the Obama presidency with Southside with You"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p>Today is the last day of the Obama presidency, so we have a special recommendation from our latest batch of new titles.<\/p>\n<p><i>Southside with You<\/i> is a pretty risky concept \u2013 a romantic drama based on Barack and Michelle Obama&#8217;s first date in Chicago. Casting the young Obamas while they&#8217;re still in the public eye must have been extremely intimidating, but by all accounts, the film pulls it off pretty well. Critical reviews suggest that it&#8217;s a great romance movie, even ignoring the fact that it happens to be about the current president.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to get wistful, now is the chance. <i>Southside with You<\/i> is now available for checkout (<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.wrlc.org\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=16652111\">HU DVD 13639<\/a>). Grab it now, because the AU Library will be closed tomorrow in observance of Inauguration Day. If you&#8217;re looking for something more timely for post-inauguration, consider <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/190902394\">Paul Verhoeven&#8217;s movies about violence, capitalism, and mass media<\/a> instead.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the last day of the Obama presidency, so we have a special recommendation from our latest batch of new titles. Southside with You is a pretty risky concept \u2013 a romantic drama based on Barack and Michelle Obama&#8217;s first date in Chicago. Casting the young Obamas while they&#8217;re still in the public eye [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[29,355],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommendations","tag-29","tag-timely-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}