{"id":15563,"date":"2014-09-16T10:49:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T09:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15563"},"modified":"2014-09-16T10:50:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T09:50:04","slug":"the-real-story-behind-the-hit-movie-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15563","title":{"rendered":"The real story behind the hit movie &#8220;Pride&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, I saw the new British film <em>&#8220;Pride&#8221;<\/em> which tells the true story of how, during the miners&#8217; strike of 1984-85, a South Wales community received substantial support from a London-based group called Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners. I loved the movie and you can read my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/FilmsO-R.html#Pride\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the &#8220;Mirror&#8221; newspaper has an informative piece about how this interaction took place and quotes from some of those personally involved including Mike Jackson whom I have met. You can read the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/breaking-barriers-stunned-silence-enduring-4266180\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, please go and see the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, I saw the new British film &#8220;Pride&#8221; which tells the true story of how, during the miners&#8217; strike of 1984-85, a South Wales community received substantial support from a London-based group called Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners. I loved the movie and you can read my review here. Today, the &#8220;Mirror&#8221; newspaper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15566,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15563\/revisions\/15566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}