{"id":1782,"date":"2006-03-03T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-04T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2006\/03\/03\/suggested-viewing-this-divided-state-dvd-1678\/"},"modified":"2006-03-03T20:57:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-04T01:57:00","slug":"suggested-viewing-this-divided-state-dvd-1678","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2006\/03\/03\/suggested-viewing-this-divided-state-dvd-1678\/","title":{"rendered":"Suggested viewing: This Divided State &#8211; DVD 1678"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4258\/2290\/1600\/divided_200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4258\/2290\/200\/divided_200.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>When filmmaker Michael Moore is invited to speak at Utah Valley State College, local residents and conservative students pull out all the stops to try to pre-empt the engagement. Neither protests, threats, bribery, or a last-ditch speech by Fox News commentator Sean Hannity can sway the determined student government leaders though. Driven by their plain-spoken belief that in a democracy people should have an opportunity to hear dissenting points-of-view, their story plays like a real life Frank Capra\/Jimmy Stewart movie. First-time filmmaker Steven Greenstreet&#8217;s work is a bit long-winded but vividly captures the many elements of this engrossing story that received little attention outside of Utah at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The filmmakers have a <a href=\"http:\/\/thisdividedstate.blogspot.com\/\">blog <\/a>worth reading.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When filmmaker Michael Moore is invited to speak at Utah Valley State College, local residents and conservative students pull out all the stops to try to pre-empt the engagement. Neither protests, threats, bribery, or a last-ditch speech by Fox News commentator Sean Hannity can sway the determined student government leaders though. Driven by their plain-spoken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","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=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}