{"id":6840,"date":"2010-04-26T13:47:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T22:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=6840"},"modified":"2010-04-26T13:47:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T22:17:15","slug":"insular-empire-red-pill-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=6840","title":{"rendered":"Insular Empire &#8220;Red Pill Tour&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vanessa Warheit, director of the film <a href=\"http:\/\/theinsularempire.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/red-pill-tour-of-oahu-part-two.html\"><em>Insular Empire: America in the Mariana Islands<\/em><\/a> just posted a new entry about her visit to Hawai&#8217;i and what she has dubbed the &#8220;Red Pill Tour&#8221;, a reference to the scene in The Matrix when Neo takes the red pill that awakens him to the violent and oppressive reality of his existence as he joins the resistance.<\/p>\n<p>It was surreal standing over the map of the Pacific ocean in the Arizona Memorial visitor&#8217;s center, talking with Dr. Hope Cristobal a Chamorro leader from Guam, Lino Olopai, a Refaluwasch (Carolinian) master canoe navigator from Saipan, Terri Keko&#8217;olani and Vanessa about the &#8220;American Lake&#8221;, how the Pacific is depicted in the U.S. imperial imagination.\u00a0 Then Lino struck up a conversation with &#8220;cousins&#8221; from Kiribati, who happened to be visiting the memorial. In beautiful contrast, it illustrated how peoples of the Pacific see Ka Moana Nui as the medium that unites peoples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanessa Warheit, director of the film Insular Empire: America in the Mariana Islands just posted a new entry about her visit to Hawai&#8217;i and what she has dubbed the &#8220;Red Pill Tour&#8221;, a reference to the scene in The Matrix when Neo takes the red pill that awakens him to the violent and oppressive reality &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=6840\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Insular Empire &#8220;Red Pill Tour&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,3,56],"tags":[2409],"class_list":["post-6840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-oahu","category-pacific","tag-movements-resistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6842,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840\/revisions\/6842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}