{"id":2846,"date":"2011-01-17T12:32:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T12:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2012-08-18T18:51:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T18:51:50","slug":"the-first-grader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/?p=2846","title":{"rendered":"THE FIRST GRADER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE FIRST GRADER- 2010. Premise by Netflix. &#8220;Based on a true story, this inspirational drama profiles<strong> the<\/strong> amazing determination of 84-year-old Kenyan Kimani N&#8217;gan&#8217;ga Maruge (Oliver Litondo), a Mau Mau freedom fighter who wants to take advantage of a new universal education decree by learning how to read. Although he faces governmental bureaucracy and tribal racism, Maruge&#8217;s cause is eventually championed by teacher Jane Obinchu (Naomie Harris), who is set on erasing illiteracy in Kenya.&#8221; <strong>Winner at 2011 Palm Springs Film Festival. A few reviews and they are mainly negative saying that the movie did not do justice to the importance of the subject. TRDB.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE FIRST GRADER- 2010. Premise by Netflix. &#8220;Based on a true story, this inspirational drama profiles the amazing determination of 84-year-old Kenyan Kimani N&#8217;gan&#8217;ga Maruge (Oliver Litondo), a Mau Mau freedom fighter who wants to take advantage of a new universal education decree by learning how to read. Although he faces governmental bureaucracy and tribal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-2846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-reviews","tag-documentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2846"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7767,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions\/7767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}