{"id":14385,"date":"2017-08-30T13:28:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T17:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=14385"},"modified":"2017-08-30T13:28:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T17:28:31","slug":"a-better-life-screening","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/event\/a-better-life-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"A Better Life screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Dryden<\/strong> will screen <strong>A Better Life<\/strong> (Chris Weitz, U.S. 2011, 98 min., 35mm) as part of the Labor Film Series. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Set in contemporary East Los Angeles, this film, whose plot partially parallels that of Bicycle Thieves, sympathetically depicts experiences of undocumented Mexican immigrants, including manual labor, schools, gangs, family, ICE, and deportation. Mexican-American actor Demi&aacute;n Bichir received an Oscar nomination for his moving portrayal of a father who risks everything to make una vida mejor for his son.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <em>[source: <a HREF=\"https:\/\/eastman.org\/event\/film-screenings\/better-life\">George Eastman Museum <\/a>, 2017-Aug-28]<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dryden will screen A Better Life (Chris Weitz, U.S. 2011, 98 min., 35mm) as part of the Labor Film Series. Set in contemporary East Los Angeles, this film, whose plot partially parallels that of Bicycle Thieves, sympathetically depicts experiences &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/event\/a-better-life-screening\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[3224],"class_list":["post-14385","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-jayceland-2017-aug-31","cat_jayceland-2017-aug-31"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/14385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/14385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14459,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/14385\/revisions\/14459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14385"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=14385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}