{"id":648,"date":"2009-06-02T07:55:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T14:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=648"},"modified":"2009-06-02T07:55:04","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T14:55:04","slug":"movies-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/06\/02\/movies-27\/","title":{"rendered":"movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R8jtAASYdLw\">Street Fight<\/a>, a documentary about Corey Booker&#8217;s first mayoral campaign in Newark, is gripping, raw and full of can&#8217;t-believe-they-got-that-on-tape moments. Made for television, it&#8217;s a bit short and certainly biased but it&#8217;s also as dramatic as fiction. You could splice it with scenes from The Wire and not a miss a beat.<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of the movie, as candidate Booker is canvassing from house to house, a small group of kids tags along, giddy at meeting a celebrity \u2013\u00a0or, at least, an adult who plays along. A girl, maybe seven, tells the camera: &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to wash my hand.&#8221; The filmmaker asks her why and she replies that she shook Booker&#8217;s hand and doesn&#8217;t want to wash off the smell. The filmmaker asks what Booker smells like and the girl answers: &#8220;The future.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Street Fight, a documentary about Corey Booker&#8217;s first mayoral campaign in Newark, is gripping, raw and full of can&#8217;t-believe-they-got-that-on-tape moments. Made for television, it&#8217;s a bit short and certainly biased but it&#8217;s also as dramatic as fiction. You could splice it with scenes from The Wire and not a miss a beat. Towards the end&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648"}],"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=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}