{"id":2953,"date":"2009-02-07T11:26:04","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T19:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=2953"},"modified":"2009-02-08T09:44:15","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T17:44:15","slug":"the-road-to-fallujah-mark-manning-2008-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=2953","title":{"rendered":"The Road To Fallujah (Mark Manning, 2008): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?author=193\">Darryl Walden<\/a>.  Viewed at the Santa Barbara Film Festival 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine<br \/>\nhaving experienced<br \/>\nthe beauty of<br \/>\ntraveling south on<br \/>\nhighway 101,<br \/>\nmajestic mountains<br \/>\non the left as if<br \/>\nnatural sentinels for<br \/>\nMontecito homes,<br \/>\nsafe beneath faultless<br \/>\nblue skies that play<br \/>\nuninterrupted reflective melodies<br \/>\non Pacific waves<br \/>\nto the right,<br \/>\nin contrast to<br \/>\na perilous trek north<br \/>\nbetween<br \/>\nShiite and Sunni<br \/>\nroadside debates<br \/>\nthat could detonate<br \/>\nat the slightest<br \/>\nprovocation,<br \/>\njeopardizing a mission<br \/>\nthat began with<br \/>\nsmuggling medical supplies,<br \/>\ntoo often too late<br \/>\nfor severed limbs<br \/>\nand unheard screams<br \/>\nbeyond bullet ridden,<br \/>\nblood soaked walls<br \/>\nand the lingering<br \/>\nirony<br \/>\nthat US tax dollars<br \/>\nwere more nobly<br \/>\nspent<br \/>\non a campus course<br \/>\nteaching documentary filmmaking<br \/>\nthan the soldiers sent,<br \/>\nwho contributed to<br \/>\nthe devastation witnessed on<br \/>\nthe road to Fallujah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Darryl Walden. Viewed at the Santa Barbara Film Festival 2009. Imagine having experienced the beauty of traveling south on highway 101, majestic mountains on the left as if natural sentinels for Montecito homes, safe beneath faultless blue skies that play uninterrupted reflective melodies on Pacific waves to the right, in contrast to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,3,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentary","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}