{"id":7,"date":"2007-02-16T08:12:09","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T08:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=7"},"modified":"2007-02-16T08:12:09","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T08:12:09","slug":"for-the-mpaa-its-republicans-over-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/for-the-mpaa-its-republicans-over-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"For the MPAA it&#039;s Republicans over refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actor\/director Clint Eastwood is set to receive the first humanitarian award ever given by the MPAA. The reason given for the award is &quot;decades&#8230; of decency and goodness of spirit in his movie making&quot; which I&#8221;ll admit is true. Eastwood&#8221;s recent movies have been heartwarming and admittedly both decent and good, but should this award be going to someone more rewarding?<br \/>\nIn the last 6 years Angelina Jolie has exemplified humanitarianism bringing millions of dollars, an international spotlight, and legislative attention as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/home.html\">UNHCR<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/help\/3f94ff664.html\">goodwill ambassador<\/a> to the problem of refugees and displaced persons. Eastwood, the former mayor of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carmel-by-the-Sea,_California\">Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA<\/a> is hardly in the same league.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/6323061.stm\">BBC Article <\/a>on Eastwood&#8221;s upcoming award and another to an Angelina Jolie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.souliejolie.com\/\">fan site<\/a> that I may or may not have spent two hours exploring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor\/director Clint Eastwood is set to receive the first humanitarian award ever given by the MPAA. The reason given for the award is &quot;decades&#8230; of decency and goodness of spirit in his movie making&quot; which I&#8221;ll admit is true&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[144,385],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","tag-film","tag-us-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}