{"id":217,"date":"2005-08-13T10:58:40","date_gmt":"2005-08-13T18:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=200"},"modified":"2005-08-13T10:58:40","modified_gmt":"2005-08-13T18:58:40","slug":"osama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2005\/08\/13\/osama\/","title":{"rendered":"Osama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, not <em>that<\/em> Osama.  This is about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osamamovie.com\/#\">movie<\/a> filmed in Afganistan after the fall of the Taliban.  It  concerns a girl who must pose as a boy (taking the name &#8220;Osama&#8221;) to support her family.  If you love foreign films that give you a glimpse of other cultures, as I do, rent this one.  Its portrayal of the humanity of ordinary Afgans is touching, but even more moving is its picture of the Taliban.  These are no cartoonish monsters.  Rather, they&#8217;re all-to-human monsters.  Their treatment of Afgan women, boys, and girls is rooted in their own lust and greed, cloaked with a twisted form of religion that they use to justify their consciences.  There are lessons here about human nature that go far beyond the Taliban itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not that Osama. This is about a movie filmed in Afganistan after the fall of the Taliban. It concerns a girl who must pose as a boy (taking the name &#8220;Osama&#8221;) to support her family. If you love foreign films that give you a glimpse of other cultures, as I do, rent this one. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s824rZ-osama","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}