{"id":5026,"date":"2008-02-14T10:41:37","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T15:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5026"},"modified":"2008-02-14T07:59:48","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T12:59:48","slug":"lunchtime_viewi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/14\/lunchtime_viewi\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunchtime Viewing: &#8220;The Little Terrorist&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapatimystery.com\/archives\/homistan\/little_terrorist.html\">Chapati Mystery<\/a>, a fifteen minute short film called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.little-terrorist.alipur.com\/\">&#8220;The Little Terrorist,&#8221;<\/a> which was nominated for an Oscar for best short in 2005. If you have fifteen minutes, you can watch it here (the first 30 seconds or so are black; be patient):<\/p>\n\n<p><center><embed style=\"width:400px; height:326px;\" id=\"VideoPlayback\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/googleplayer.swf?docId=-7310473179454725496&#038;hl=en\" flashvars=\"\"> <\/embed><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p>The video appears to have been posted by the production company itself, so you can watch in good conscience. According to the film&#8217;s website, it was filmed on location in a rural village in Rajasthan on a shoe-string budget.<\/p>\n\n<p>Also, you may want to go straight to <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-7310473179454725496&#038;hl=en\">Video.google.com <\/a> to view it on a slightly larger screen (especially if you want to read the subtitles).<\/p>\n\n<p>One minor question to consider might be: what dialect are the villagers speaking? Would we simply call it <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rajasthani_language\">&#8220;Rajasthani&#8221;<\/a>? <!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Chapati Mystery, a fifteen minute short film called &#8220;The Little Terrorist,&#8221; which was nominated for an Oscar for best short in 2005. If you have fifteen minutes, you can watch it here (the first 30 seconds or so are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/14\/lunchtime_viewi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5026"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}