{"id":129,"date":"2008-05-01T18:45:34","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T22:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2008\/05\/01\/vito-friscia-after-being-a-911-first-responder\/"},"modified":"2008-05-01T18:45:34","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T22:45:34","slug":"vito-friscia-after-being-a-911-first-responder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2008\/05\/01\/vito-friscia-after-being-a-911-first-responder\/","title":{"rendered":"Vito [Friscia] After [being a 9\/11 first responder]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first film at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersmoviefest.com\/\">The Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF)<\/a><\/strong> was <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0469218\/\">Vito After<\/a><\/strong> &mdash; the documentary about <strong>Vito Friscia<\/strong> and his battle with health issues following being a first-responder at the 9\/11 attacks.  It was a very nice film about the man and increased awareness of the scope of the problem: both in the cops' unwillingness to answer surveys honestly from their self-sufficient tough-guy personae (Friscia is shown marking \"no affect on quality of life\" despite a nagging cough), and in the mystified medical professionals who have been unable to decipher solid answers from the deluge of illness and conditions.  During the question-and-answer, Friscia was there along with filmmaker <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vitoafter.com\/Vito_after.com\/Html\/Dreamslate_Aboutthe_Filmaker.htm\">Maria Pusateri<\/a><\/strong>.  She said that the group shown doing the research was running out of money and the federal government was not supplying more &mdash; in fact, this was the only mention in the film or the Q-and-A of the government; the movie refreshingly doesn't target blame on any group as it's simply not really knowable who is \"to blame\".<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first film at The Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) was Vito After &mdash; the documentary about Vito Friscia and his battle with health issues following being a first-responder at the 9\/11 attacks. It was a very nice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2008\/05\/01\/vito-friscia-after-being-a-911-first-responder\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,611,21],"tags":[435,634,624,612,625,626],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries","category-for-the-parents","category-movies","tag-435","tag-first-responder","tag-maria-pusateri","tag-rhfiff","tag-vito-after","tag-vito-friscia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}