{"id":1428,"date":"2016-05-30T08:28:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T12:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2017-11-26T19:37:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T00:37:26","slug":"whole-gritty-city-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2016\/05\/30\/whole-gritty-city-new-orleans\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Whole Gritty City,&#8217; a documentary about New Orleans school bands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3zl-JTH_mUI?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All of your cares, all of your worries, I don&#8217;t care if you just had something very tragic that happened to you in your life, once that band gives you that downbeat, whomp, and that music is right and it&#8217;s powerful and it&#8217;s strong, just for that brief two or three minutes you forget every problem that you had, you have no cares\u00a0in the world,&#8221; says one of the people interviewed in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thewholegrittycity.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Whole Gritty City<\/a>.&#8221; &#8220;It must be nice to actually live like that, with no cares in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 90-minute documentary by directors Richard Barber and\u00a0Andre\u00a0Lumberton, which will be screened on <a href=\"http:\/\/ogdenmuseum.org\/event\/ogden-hours-film-screening-whole-nitty-gritty-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 2 at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans<\/a>,\u00a0focuses on three school marching bands from New Orleans trying to transcend the struggles of that city. &#8220;The film follows kids growing up in America&#8217;s most musical city,&#8221; the filmmakers write, &#8220;and one of its most dangerous, as their band directors get them ready to perform in the Mardi Gras parades.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;All of your cares, all of your worries, I don&#8217;t care if you just had something very tragic that happened to you in your life, once that band gives you that downbeat, whomp, and that music is right and it&#8217;s powerful and it&#8217;s strong, just for that brief two or three minutes you forget every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,101],"tags":[24,117],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3980,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions\/3980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}