{"id":275,"date":"2006-03-23T09:41:06","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T17:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=275"},"modified":"2006-03-24T12:35:45","modified_gmt":"2006-03-24T20:35:45","slug":"spt-a-documentary-about-slam-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2006\/03\/23\/spt-a-documentary-about-slam-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"SP!T: A Documentary about Slam Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_03_23_spit.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_03_23_uprising.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spitthemovie.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right src=\"http:\/\/myspace-666.vo.llnwd.net\/00542\/66\/64\/542584666_m.jpg\" alt=\"Spit\" \/><\/a><em>GUEST: Rotimi Rainwater, film maker<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153SP!T,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a new documentary about slam poetry from filmmaker Rotimi Rainwater. The film focuses on four poets from New York and Los Angeles competing in a National Poetry Slam competition. The documentary highlights the lives of poets and what inspires them to write. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153SP!T,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d also explores the  connections between the world of hip-hop and spoken word poetry. Rainwater\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s film was an official selection of the 2006 Pan African Film Festival where it won the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Executive Directors Choice\u00e2\u20ac\u009d award. It is also an official selection in the Silverlake International Film Festival. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spitthemovie.com\">www.spitthemovie.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Sp!t will be showing on Sunday March 26th at 7 pm, and Tuesday March 29th  at 7:45 pm, at the Arclight Cinemas, 6360 West Sunset Blvd. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silverlakefilmfestival.or\">www.silverlakefilmfestival.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: Rotimi Rainwater, film maker \u00e2\u20ac\u0153SP!T,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a new documentary about slam poetry from filmmaker Rotimi Rainwater. The film focuses on four poets from New York and Los Angeles competing in a National Poetry Slam competition. The documentary highlights the lives of poets and what inspires them to write. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153SP!T,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d also explores the connections between [&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-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","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=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}