{"id":1078,"date":"2010-05-20T03:37:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T03:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:26:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T16:26:03","slug":"%e2%80%9ca-valuable-resource-for-teaching-and-organizing-%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/?p=1078","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA valuable resource for teaching and organizing.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Film Review by John Junkerman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mention \u201cThe Insular Empire\u201d to the average American, and they\u2019d  likely have no idea what you were talking about. They probably still  wouldn\u2019t get it if you gave them another clue: \u201cAmerica in the Mariana  Islands.\u201d These are the title and subtitle of a new film by Vanessa  Warheit, which began screening on PBS earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>It is the singular misfortune of the residents of Guam and the  Northern Marianas to have been born on tiny islands of great strategic  value in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The consequence has been their colonial  subordination for four centuries to a succession of empires&#8230; (read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/japanfocus.org\/-John-Junkerman\/3359\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus Film Review by John Junkerman Mention \u201cThe Insular Empire\u201d to the average American, and they\u2019d likely have no idea what you were talking about. They probably still wouldn\u2019t get it if you gave them another clue: \u201cAmerica in the Mariana Islands.\u201d These are the title and subtitle of a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2517,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/2517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}