{"id":1679,"date":"2018-11-07T16:19:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T21:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2019-01-25T16:06:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T21:06:52","slug":"in-celebration-of-guy-fawkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1679","title":{"rendered":"In Celebration of Guy Fawkes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 25, 2019: As part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theedublogger.com\/january-2019\/\">#blogging28 challenge<\/a>, I am updating this post to include another video suggested by the original inspiration for the post, Keith Reeves.<\/p>\n<p>From The American President:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zemrWBIc_hE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My friend and colleague, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kdreeves.com\/books\/\">Keith Reeves<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reeveskd\/status\/1060273386528608256\">posted the V for Vendetta<\/a> speech as a way to remember the Fifth of November, otherwise known as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guy_Fawkes\">Guy Fawkes Day<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/chqi8m4CEEY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And it made me think of other great video speeches of resistance:<\/p>\n<p>The opening speech from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbo.com\/the-newsroom\">The Newsroom<\/a> where Will McAvoy riffs on the question of why America is the greatest country in the world. (Hint: he doesn&#8217;t necessarily agree.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S4r7hIWln7Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jedediah Bartlett&#8217;s biblical\u00a0soliloquy\u00a0 from<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0200276\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\"> The West Wing<\/a>. I found this series belatedly and this was my first episode. I knew I had found my television home.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3CPjWd4MUXs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And, finally, just to show my age&#8230;the classic from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0074958\/\">Network.<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was just entering high school when this movie premiered, so it gives you a sense of why I may have a somewhat cynical world view.\u00a0 Every\u00a0so often, I fight the temptation to open my window and lean out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZwMVMbmQBug\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Any others I&#8217;ve missed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 25, 2019: As part of the #blogging28 challenge, I am updating this post to include another video suggested by the original inspiration for the post, Keith Reeves. From The American President: My friend and colleague, Keith Reeves, posted the V for Vendetta speech as a way to remember the Fifth of November, otherwise known &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1679\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Celebration of Guy Fawkes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,12,58],"tags":[467,468],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-movies","category-politics","tag-keith-reeves","tag-movies"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-r5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1765,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions\/1765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}