{"id":2283,"date":"2019-01-28T11:56:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T16:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2019-01-28T11:56:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T16:56:57","slug":"random-movie-monday-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2019\/01\/28\/random-movie-monday-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Movie Monday&#8211; Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t\n<p>Technically this is the first Monday of the semester, since MLK Day was last week, and we had a snow day the week before that. What will today&#8217;s random movie be? Will it be something light and cheerful for the start of the semester. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hahaha, no. This weeks that random number generator gave me <em>Crash,\u00a0<\/em>which is anything but a lighthearted romp. Here&#8217;s our summary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> <br>A car accident brings together a group of strangers in Los Angeles. Crash takes a provocative, unflinching look at the complexities of racial tolerance in contemporary America. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Crash<\/em> is definitely critically lauded, and it won a slew of awards, including the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. You can check it out from Media Services as DVD 1736.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Crash - Official\u00ae Trailer [HD]\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q3ahUiPnIvY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technically this is the first Monday of the semester, since MLK Day was last week, and we had a snow day the week before that. What will today&#8217;s random movie be? Will it be something light and cheerful for the start of the semester. Hahaha, no. This weeks that random number generator gave me Crash,\u00a0which [&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-2283","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\/2283","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=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}