{"id":30,"date":"2004-02-15T10:59:39","date_gmt":"2004-02-15T10:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2004-02-15T10:59:39","modified_gmt":"2004-02-15T10:59:39","slug":"nowhere_in_africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Nowhere in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An excellent film! (I believe this played briefly at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orpheumtheatre.net\/\">Orpheum<\/a>) Available on DVD.<br \/>\nShortly before World War II, a Jewish couple and their young daughter emigrate to Kenya from Germany to escape the Nazis. Not all members of the family are happy with this drastic change &#8212; but going home isn&#8217;t an option. Ultimately, they must all come to terms with a new life in a new continent. Director Caroline Link&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.com\/MovieDisplay?trkid=90529&#038;movieid=60026143\">epic drama won the 2002 Oscar for best foreign film<\/a>.<br \/>\nUPDATE:  Interestingly, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisc.edu\/wisconsinpress\/\">University of Wisconsin Press<\/a> published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisc.edu\/wisconsinpress\/books\/2958.htm\">the autobiographical novel<\/a> upon which the film was based.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excellent film! (I believe this played briefly at the Orpheum) Available on DVD. Shortly before World War II, a Jewish couple and their young daughter emigrate to Kenya from Germany to escape the Nazis. Not all members of the family are happy with this drastic change &#8212; but going home isn&#8217;t an option. Ultimately, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}