{"id":2482,"date":"2011-08-17T10:36:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T15:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/?p=2482"},"modified":"2011-08-17T10:36:03","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T15:36:03","slug":"the-interrupters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/2482","title":{"rendered":"The Interrupters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday night I went to the Gene Siskel Film Center to see a documentary film that a friend (Aaron Wickenden) edited called <em><a href=\"http:\/\/interrupters.kartemquin.com\/\">The Interrupters<\/a><\/em>. The cast and crew answered questions after the showing, which was a powerful experience after having just watched them on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>From the website:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Interrupters captures a period in Chicago when it became a national symbol for the violence in our cities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230;The Interrupters \u00e2\u20ac\u201d who have credibility on the streets because of their own personal histories \u00e2\u20ac\u201d intervene in conflicts before they explode into\u00c2\u00a0violence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This film is incredible. <a href=\"http:\/\/interrupters.kartemquin.com\/screenings\">See it.<\/a> Talk about it. It will make you laugh, cry, and think. If you want to bring this film to your community, <a href=\"http:\/\/interrupters.kartemquin.com\/outreach\">contact the filmmakers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v92\/fireflyinthecity\/Blog\/interrupters-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"335\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday night I went to the Gene Siskel Film Center to see a documentary film that a friend (Aaron Wickenden) edited called The Interrupters. The cast and crew answered questions after the showing, which was a powerful experience after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2485,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions\/2485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}