{"id":2826,"date":"2015-04-04T21:29:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T02:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/?p=2826"},"modified":"2015-04-04T21:36:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T02:36:29","slug":"im-one-of-the-characters-chronicled-in-the-world-premiere-of-a-documentary-that-was-45-years-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/2015\/04\/04\/im-one-of-the-characters-chronicled-in-the-world-premiere-of-a-documentary-that-was-45-years-in-the-making\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m one of the characters chronicled in the world premiere of a documentary that was 45 years in the making."},"content":{"rendered":"
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THE DINKYTOWN UPRISING<\/h3>\n

DIRECTOR AL MILGROM ATTENDING.<\/h3>\n

The year is 1970 and the disastrous Vietnam War keeps escalating. Protests are erupting all over U.S. campuses. But in Minneapolis, word that the national Red Barn Restaurant chain wants to erect a new fast-food\u00a0franchise in old, venerable Dinkytown, the \u201cwar at home\u201d\u00a0\u00a0takes a different turn. This stunning documentary chronicles the unprecedented 40-day, 40-night continuous Dinkytown \u201cOccupation\u201d to prevent construction of an unwanted hamburger joint.<\/p>\n

From film programmer-turned-filmmaker Al Milgrom, the story is recounted by seven participants whose varied reminiscences\u00a0about defending the neighborhood becomes a microcosm of the memorable \u201870\u2019s Generation. Music featured in the film\u00a0by Bob Dylan, Willie Murphy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE DINKYTOWN UPRISING DIRECTOR AL MILGROM ATTENDING. The year is 1970 and the disastrous Vietnam War keeps escalating. Protests are erupting all over U.S. campuses. But in Minneapolis, word that the national Red Barn Restaurant chain wants to erect a new fast-food\u00a0franchise in old, venerable Dinkytown, the \u201cwar at home\u201d\u00a0\u00a0takes a different turn. This stunning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2826"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2831,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions\/2831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}