{"id":6159,"date":"2014-11-21T02:35:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T18:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6159"},"modified":"2014-11-21T02:35:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T18:35:46","slug":"a-brief-history-of-murder-islands-how-the-hunger-games-mockingjay-built-a-dystopia-from-scraps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/21\/a-brief-history-of-murder-islands-how-the-hunger-games-mockingjay-built-a-dystopia-from-scraps\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of Murder Islands: How \u2018The Hunger Games: Mockingjay\u2019 Built a Dystopia From Scraps \u00ab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We need more symbolism like this in our drive against corruption in government.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Tuesday, in the city of Khon Kaen, Thailand, five college students were arrested for making the three-fingered District 12 salute during an appearance by Thai prime minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who seized control of the country in a military coup this past May. Anti-coup activists have adopted the gesture (now illegal in Thailand) as a silent symbol of defiance, proving once again that you don\u2019t really know what a film is about until an audience tells you. On Thursday, three more students were detained for throwing up the District 12 sign outside a shopping-mall multiplex in Bangkok.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/grantland.com\/hollywood-prospectus\/hunger-games-mockingjay-battle-royale-lord-of-the-flies-murder-islands\/\">A Brief History of Murder Islands: How \u2018The Hunger Games: Mockingjay\u2019 Built a Dystopia From Scraps \u00ab<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need more symbolism like this in our drive against corruption in government. On Tuesday, in the city of Khon Kaen, Thailand, five college students were arrested for making the three-fingered District 12 salute during an appearance by Thai prime minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who seized control of the country in a military coup this past &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/21\/a-brief-history-of-murder-islands-how-the-hunger-games-mockingjay-built-a-dystopia-from-scraps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Brief History of Murder Islands: How \u2018The Hunger Games: Mockingjay\u2019 Built a Dystopia From Scraps \u00ab&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,66,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol","category-politics","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}