{"id":20558,"date":"2013-09-29T20:20:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T00:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20558"},"modified":"2013-09-29T20:20:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T00:20:08","slug":"losing-our-sons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20558","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Losing Our Sons&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Losing <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Our Sons (Too Little, Too Late)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/our_sons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"rottentomatoes\">Our Sons<\/a>&#8221; is a film telling the story of Carlos Bledsoe and Andy Long. Carlos Bledsoe was an African-American from a Baptist family who <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Religious conversion\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Religious_conversion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">converted to Islam<\/a>. On June 9, 2009, Carlos Bledsoe murdered Andy Long, a U. S. Army Recruiter in Little Rock, Arkansas. Carlos Bledsoe states that he did it \u201cfor <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Allah\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Allah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Allah<\/a>.\u201d The film traces Carlos\u2019 path from <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Middle class\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Middle_class\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">middle class<\/a> student to American jihadi, and shows how American institutions at every level failed us all. The film will be shown in Stoughton, Massachusetts, on October 10th. Please see upcoming events for details.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Melvin Bledsoe and Darius Long, fathers of both young men, will speak at the event.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I have seen this film. It is well worth seeing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=5b06760e-f273-4c69-b97a-7adf6d40c6bb\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Losing Our Sons&#8221; is a film telling the story of Carlos Bledsoe and Andy Long. Carlos Bledsoe was an African-American from a Baptist family who converted to Islam. On June 9, 2009, Carlos Bledsoe murdered Andy Long, a U. S. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20558\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5605,654,6382,6385,6386,6383,6384,285],"class_list":["post-20558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2009-little-rock-recruiting-office-shooting","tag-allah","tag-andy-long","tag-baptists","tag-little-rock","tag-little-rock-arkansas","tag-religious-conversion","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20559,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20558\/revisions\/20559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}