{"id":8708,"date":"2015-02-28T21:09:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T21:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/?p=8708"},"modified":"2015-03-19T17:41:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T17:41:02","slug":"citizenfour-wins-oscar-for-best-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/citizenfour-wins-oscar-for-best-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Citizenfour&#8221; wins Oscar for best documentary ~"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2IyngNYsanA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent Oscar show awarded the Edward Snowden film, Citizenfour, for best documentary ~ The academy could not let the honor go by without the host of the show, Neil Patrick Harris, following up quickly with a nasty remark about how Edward could not be at the ceremony &#8220;for some treason&#8221; &#8211; Therefore bringing the debate to light of government spying on its own citizens  &#8211; The day after the Oscars .. Snowden reunited with reporter Glenn Greenwald and director Laura Poitras on the digital platform Reddit, to share his thoughts from Russia, where he&#8217;s avoiding arrest&#8230;to address the film&#8217;s impact and support regular citizens who combat government surveillance &#8211; &#8220;If you&#8217;re not willing to be called a few names to help out your country, you don&#8217;t care enough.&#8221;  and reporter Greenwald said &#8220;Edward Snowden should not be forced to choose between living in Russia or spending decades in a high-security American prison&#8230;. The goal of the U.S. government is to threaten, bully, and intimidate all whistle-blowers\u2014&#8230; because they think that climate of fear is crucial to deterring future whistle-blowers. As long as they embrace that tactic, it&#8217;s hard to envision them letting Ed return to his country. But we as citizens should be much more interested in the question of why our government threatens and imprisons whistle-blowers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/citizenfour-wins-oscar-for-best-documentary\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,3,9],"tags":[5676],"class_list":["post-8708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-human-rights","category-people","category-video","category-world-news","tag-edward-snowden","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8709,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions\/8709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}