{"id":741,"date":"2012-12-17T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/12\/17\/hot-docs-the-greenhorns\/"},"modified":"2012-12-17T22:01:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T03:01:00","slug":"hot-docs-the-greenhorns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/12\/17\/hot-docs-the-greenhorns\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Docs: The Greenhorns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<i>Hot Docs highlights interesting new documentaries we&#8217;ve recently added to our collection.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><b>The Greenhorns<\/b><\/i> (DVD 8957) challenges conventional wisdom about agriculture during a time when few are considering careers on farms. The documentary, which was produced as part of an awareness program for agricultural reform, follows the lives of new, young farmers becoming acquainted with their chosen&#8230; fields. (Sorry, the pun was far too easy to make.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreenhorns.net\/?cat=29\">Official description from the film&#8217;s website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The Greenhorns<\/i> documentary film, completed after almost 3 years in  production, explores the lives of America\u2019s young farming community \u2013  its spirit, practices, and needs. It is the filmmaker\u2019s hope that by  broadcasting the stories and voices of these young farmers, we can build  the case for those considering a career in agriculture \u2013 to embolden  them, to entice them, and to recruit them into farming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Docs highlights interesting new documentaries we&#8217;ve recently added to our collection. The Greenhorns (DVD 8957) challenges conventional wisdom about agriculture during a time when few are considering careers on farms. The documentary, which was produced as part of an awareness program for agricultural reform, follows the lives of new, young farmers becoming acquainted with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[107,174],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-documentary","tag-hot-docs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","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=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}