{"id":745,"date":"2009-08-18T01:42:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T07:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/?p=745"},"modified":"2009-08-18T01:42:32","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T07:42:32","slug":"district-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/18\/district-9\/","title":{"rendered":"District 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the movie <a title=\"Amazing Movie\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/SHOWBIZ\/Movies\/08\/16\/boxoffice.ew\/index.html?eref=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\"><em>District 9<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>this past weekend and thought that it was amazing. It was one of the most thought provoking Sci-Fi films I&#8217;ve seen in a very long time. Real Sci-Fi should explore the human condition, but most movies calming the genre get sidetracked by futuristic technology and and too many special effects. District 9 had aliens, explosions and amazing cg, but what really made the film was the subtext. Here are two articles that don&#8217;t give too much away: <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5317248\/district-9-really-is-all-about-apartheid\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/herocomplex\/2009\/08\/district-9-is-an-alien-vision-of-south-african-apartheid.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.  The teaser trailer for the movie is below. If you haven&#8217;t already seen it, you should try to this coming weekend.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"512\" height=\"296\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/embed\/4qjEgtvF1WQ5Y7VDQVAIew\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the movie District 9 this past weekend and thought that it was amazing. It was one of the most thought provoking Sci-Fi films I&#8217;ve seen in a very long time. Real Sci-Fi should explore the human condition, but most movies calming the genre get sidetracked by futuristic technology and and too many special [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmOjo-c1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}