{"id":7472,"date":"2011-12-18T13:19:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T12:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=7472"},"modified":"2011-12-18T13:20:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T12:20:19","slug":"labour-and-unions-in-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=7472","title":{"rendered":"Labour and unions in the movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the movies and, like everyone, I enjoy the escapism that they provide. But some cinema at least should &#8211; like all art &#8211; reflect reality and show people as they are, so a work that features working people and perhaps even trade unions is to be welcomed.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, I saw a rare example of this specialist genre: <em>&#8220;The Navigators&#8221;<\/em> by Ken Loach [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/FilmsM-N.html#Navigators\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>In fact, over the years I&#8217;ve managed to see some 26 films about labour and\/or unions and you can see all my reviews <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/tufilms.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the movies and, like everyone, I enjoy the escapism that they provide. But some cinema at least should &#8211; like all art &#8211; reflect reality and show people as they are, so a work that features working people and perhaps even trade unions is to be welcomed. This weekend, I saw a rare [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472","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=7472"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7477,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472\/revisions\/7477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}