{"id":198058,"date":"2007-12-18T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T00:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/18\/the-old-negro-space-program\/"},"modified":"2007-12-18T19:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T00:50:00","slug":"the-old-negro-space-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/18\/the-old-negro-space-program\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Negro Space Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are wondering what screenwriters are doing while on strike, some of it is private online projects that are pretty damn good, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.negrospaceprogram.com\/\">The Old Negro Space Program<\/a> (10:22).<br \/><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lxNAPqGDwCo&#038;rel=1&#038;border=0\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lxNAPqGDwCo&#038;rel=1&#038;border=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>It&#8217;s a very funny send up of Ken Burns documentaries (full disclosure, I went to Hampshire College for 2 years, and he graduated from there, though we never met, IIRC, he was up for an Oscar for his Brooklyn Bridge documentary my freshman year).<\/p>\n<p>The movie studios are saying that they don&#8217;t need the writers, but it appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-webwriters17dec17,0,3175720.story?coll=la-home-center\">a number of striking writers are in talks to launch Web start-ups<\/a>, so I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s not the other way around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are wondering what screenwriters are doing while on strike, some of it is private online projects that are pretty damn good, like The Old Negro Space Program (10:22).It&#8217;s a very funny send up of Ken Burns documentaries (full disclosure, I went to Hampshire College for 2 years, and he graduated from there, though &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1065,1023,1064],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-entertainment","category-labor","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}