{"id":136,"date":"2008-08-30T23:43:46","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T06:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/archives\/136"},"modified":"2008-08-30T23:43:46","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T06:43:46","slug":"movies-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2008\/08\/30\/movies-21\/","title":{"rendered":"movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the summer of 2002, Mexico became a democracy, again. Via a peaceful transfer of power, the PRI lost control over the executive branch for the first time in 70 years. No such transition can take place without a significant cultural shift:\u00a0the kind represented by the 2000 film <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/review?res=9D00EEDC113FF93BA35757C0A9669C8B63\">La Ley de Herodes<\/a>. Though quite dark \u2013\u00a0it suggests a corrupt society cannot produce reformers \u2013 as a political fable it&#8217;s quite good. I&#8217;d love a sequel about reform. Whether in a movie or in reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the summer of 2002, Mexico became a democracy, again. Via a peaceful transfer of power, the PRI lost control over the executive branch for the first time in 70 years. No such transition can take place without a significant cultural shift:\u00a0the kind represented by the 2000 film La Ley de Herodes. Though quite dark&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}