{"id":2103,"date":"2018-10-22T15:39:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T19:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2018-10-22T15:39:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T19:39:31","slug":"random-movie-monday-the-giver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2018\/10\/22\/random-movie-monday-the-giver\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Movie Monday &#8212; The Giver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tHappy Monday folks! Today\u2019s random movie is DVD 13980: <em>The Giver<\/em>. Here\u2019s our summary:<\/p>\n<p><em>The<\/em><em>\u00a0story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with\u00a0<\/em><em>the<\/em><em>\u00a0elder, who is\u00a0<\/em><em>the <\/em><em>sole keeper of all\u00a0<\/em><em>the<\/em><em>\u00a0community&#8217;s memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover\u00a0<\/em><em>the<\/em><em>\u00a0dark and deadly truths of his community&#8217;s secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve never seen this movie, but I read the book for class in middle school. As one of the activities in class, we had a secret ballot to assign each of our classmates one of the jobs in the \u201cUtopian\u201d community described in the book. My classmates chose me to be the elder that holds all of the community\u2019s painful memories. I\u2019m still not quite sure what to make of that.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Giver Official Trailer #2 (2014) - Meryl Streep, Jeff Bridges Movie HD\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uxFJvlWqphM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Monday folks! Today\u2019s random movie is DVD 13980: The Giver. Here\u2019s our summary: The\u00a0story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with\u00a0the\u00a0elder, who is\u00a0the sole keeper of all\u00a0the\u00a0community&#8217;s memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover\u00a0the\u00a0dark and deadly truths of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies-at-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}