{"id":51226,"date":"2011-11-28T08:15:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T13:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=51226"},"modified":"2023-06-27T13:14:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:14:55","slug":"michael-moore-speaks-his-mind-to-appreciative-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/11\/michael-moore-speaks-his-mind-to-appreciative-audience\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Moore Speaks His Mind to Appreciative Audience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[yframe url=&#8217;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4CaLt_-wEQw&#8217;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Mark Twain House &amp; Museum presented a lecture by award winning documentary film maker Michael Moore on November 18 at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts.<\/p>\n<p>Moore is the creator of the most successful documentary films of all time including the Oscar-winning Bowling for Columbine, the Cannes Film Festival Palme d&#8217;Or-winner Fahrenheit 9\/11, Sicko, and Capitalism: A Love Story. His latest book, Here Comes Trouble, is a memoir filled with his trademark humor, wit and provocative politics. Derided by many as un-American and haled by others as an American hero, Moore certainly subscribes to Mark Twain&#8217;s maxim, &#8220;Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Award-winning documentary film maker Michael Moore spoke on campus as part of the &#8216;Pen Warmed Up In Hell&#8217; lecture series sponsored by the Mark Twain House and Museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":51229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2234,70],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[56],"class_list":["post-51226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-university-life","category-video"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 06:23:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51226"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51434,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51226\/revisions\/51434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/51229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51226"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=51226"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=51226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}