{"id":8804,"date":"2010-07-31T06:59:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T11:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=8804"},"modified":"2010-07-31T06:59:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T11:59:21","slug":"new-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=8804","title":{"rendered":"New Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one isn&#8217;t five minutes of silly fun like our normal Saturday morning vids.  This one is beautiful, upsetting, haunting, and charming. <\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FdeioVndUhs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FdeioVndUhs'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>At first I was worried this was going to be a contrived message about how racism is a bad thing.  While anti-racism is a fine message and worthy of propagation, when packaged as entertainment it usually goes down like cough medicine. Perhaps this is the fault of the writers more than the subject matter? I don&#8217;t know. In any case, that&#8217;s not where this film was headed.  At its core this movie was darker than that, and at the end it was more lighthearted than that. In the end it was about being the new kid.  I saw my young self in more than one character here.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing how some experiences can be so universal, no matter where you&#8217;re from or where you go.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one isn&#8217;t five minutes of silly fun like our normal Saturday morning vids. This one is beautiful, upsetting, haunting, and charming. Link (YouTube) At first I was worried this was going to be a contrived message about how racism is a bad thing. While anti-racism is a fine message and worthy of propagation, when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream-cast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}