{"id":749,"date":"2012-12-09T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/12\/09\/hot-docs-mr-cao-goes-to-washington\/"},"modified":"2012-12-09T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T22:50:00","slug":"hot-docs-mr-cao-goes-to-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/12\/09\/hot-docs-mr-cao-goes-to-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Docs: Mr. Cao Goes to Washington"},"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>Mr. Cao Goes to Washington <\/b><\/i>(DVD  10616) challenges the political status quo with a look at Joseph Cao, a representative with an unconventional life story. Congressman Cao was Congress&#8217;s first Vietnamese-American, a non-white Republican elected by an African-American majority in New Orleans, and the only member of his party to support the Affordable Care Act. This documentary about Cao&#8217;s brief career on Capitol Hill is a compelling story that exposes the infighting and partisan bickery that characterizes current-day Congress.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrcaofilm.com\/\">Official description from the film&#8217;s website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What happens when the naivet\u00e9 of a political rookie clashes with the realities of racial and partisan politics of the South?<\/p>\n<p><i>Mr. Cao Goes to Washington<\/i> is a fascinating character study of Congressman Joseph Cao, a Vietnamese American Republican elected by surprise in an African American Democratic district in New Orleans. Will Cao make it through his term with his idealism intact?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Docs highlights interesting new documentaries we&#8217;ve recently added to our collection. Mr. Cao Goes to Washington (DVD 10616) challenges the political status quo with a look at Joseph Cao, a representative with an unconventional life story. Congressman Cao was Congress&#8217;s first Vietnamese-American, a non-white Republican elected by an African-American majority in New Orleans, and [&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-749","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\/749","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=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}