{"id":11424,"date":"2009-12-09T10:48:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T17:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=11424"},"modified":"2009-12-09T10:48:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T17:48:42","slug":"morgan-freeman-matt-damon-and-francois-pienaar-on-invictus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/12\/09\/morgan-freeman-matt-damon-and-francois-pienaar-on-invictus\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, and Francois Pienaar on &#8220;Invictus&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-120909\/2009_12_09_invictus.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-120909\/2009_12_09_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/www.moviesonline.ca\/AdvHTML_Upload\/invictus-poster.jpg\" alt=\"invictus\" \/>Directed by Clint Eastwood, \u201cInvictus\u201d is a new film set in post-apartheid Africa starring Morgan Freeman as President Nelson Mandela. Opening in Johannesburg yesterday, the film cinematically explores Mandela\u2019s attempt to make the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa a moment of racial harmony. Having been imprisoned for twenty-seven years and labeled a \u201cterrorist\u201d for opposing apartheid, the newly elected President reached out and called for national unity as the nearly all-white South African rugby team was set to face off against New Zealand in the championship game. \u201cInvictus,\u201d which also stars actor Matt Damon as rugby team captain Francois Pienaar, opens to theaters across the United States on Friday. KPFK\u2019s Thandisizwe Chimurenga attended the LA Press Junket for the film\u2019s premiere and brings us the voices of Morgan Freeman, Francois Pienaar, and Matt Damon, who plays Pienaar. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Directed by Clint Eastwood, \u201cInvictus\u201d is a new film set in post-apartheid Africa starring Morgan Freeman as President Nelson Mandela. Opening in Johannesburg yesterday, the film cinematically explores Mandela\u2019s attempt to make the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa a moment of racial harmony. Having been imprisoned for twenty-seven years and labeled a \u201cterrorist\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}