{"id":1775,"date":"2006-03-10T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-10T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2006\/03\/10\/obit-garrett-scott-documentarian-37\/"},"modified":"2006-03-10T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-10T17:14:00","slug":"obit-garrett-scott-documentarian-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2006\/03\/10\/obit-garrett-scott-documentarian-37\/","title":{"rendered":"Obit: Garrett Scott, Documentarian, 37"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tGarrett Scott&#8217;s most recent film <span style=\"font-weight:bold\">Occupation: Dreamland<\/span> is about the lives of army personnel fighting in Fallujah, Iraq. It is slated to air on the Sundance Channel next month.<br \/>In 2002, his first film, <span style=\"font-weight:bold\">Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story<\/span> (VHS 7270), was released. This unusual film starts with  the news story of Shawn Nelson, who emerged from a mineshaft dug in his backyard to seize a 60 ton tank and rampage through the streets of his San Diego neighborhood. This story segues to the larger story of a defense-industry boomtown, which flourished for decades but eventually declined leaving a desperate suburban wasteland in its wake. <br \/>Mr. Garrett suffered cardiac arrest while swimming in his local community pool in Coronado, California.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2006\/03\/07\/BAGSHHJMFJ1.DTL&amp;hw=cul+de+sac&amp;sn=001&amp;sc=1000\">link <\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garrett Scott&#8217;s most recent film Occupation: Dreamland is about the lives of army personnel fighting in Fallujah, Iraq. It is slated to air on the Sundance Channel next month.In 2002, his first film, Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story (VHS 7270), was released. This unusual film starts with the news story of Shawn Nelson, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}