{"id":4967,"date":"2009-11-21T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4967"},"modified":"2014-02-14T09:37:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T15:37:40","slug":"warm-and-fuzzy-to-the-right-left-mindset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/21\/warm-and-fuzzy-to-the-right-left-mindset\/","title":{"rendered":"Warm and Fuzzy To The Right (Left) Mindset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It didn&#8217;t sound like the sort of film I&#8217;d see since I&#8217;m not dating\/married to a girl who would want to see it, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/entertainment\/reviews.nsf\/movie\/story\/95539A63ACC9D9248625767200694E77?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">this review of the film <i>Amreeka<\/i><\/a> doesn&#8217;t make it sound like it delivers warm and fuzzies to people of a certain mindset:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The two arrive at the Illinois home of her sister Raghda (Hiam Abbass of &#8220;The Visitor&#8221;) shortly after the start of the war in Iraq, as anti-Arab paranoia runs high.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Was anti-Arab paranoia peaking in 2003?  I would have put whatever anti-Arab paranoia at its peak in 2001 or 2002.  Also, I&#8217;d like to wonder who diagnosed suspicion of Middle Eastern people after an attack by Middle Eastern people on Americans as clinical paranoia.<\/p>\n<p>A film reviewer, no doubt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It didn&#8217;t sound like the sort of film I&#8217;d see since I&#8217;m not dating\/married to a girl who would want to see it, but this review of the film Amreeka doesn&#8217;t make it sound like it delivers warm and fuzzies to people of a certain mindset: The two arrive at the Illinois home of her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13296,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967\/revisions\/13296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}