{"id":671,"date":"2009-12-06T15:59:08","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T21:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ragtagfilm.com\/blog\/?p=671"},"modified":"2009-12-06T15:59:08","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T21:59:08","slug":"now-playing-good-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/now-playing-good-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"\"Good Hair\""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/media.onsugar.com\/files\/ons1\/192\/1922283\/41_2009\/87b7c2815f979c25_chris-rock-good-hair-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"289\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\"Is it possible to talk about the fascinating and complex universe of black hair without dealing with race and identity? That\u2019s the question posed by <strong><em>Good Hair<\/em><\/strong>, director Jeff Stilson and co-writer\/producer\/narrator\/star Chris Rock\u2019s charming new comic exploration of African-American hair. The film is filled with sadly telling moments, like a black beauty student telling Rock that she\u2019d have a hard time taking a job applicant seriously if he had an afro, yet its tone is one of amusement rather than indignation.\"<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/good-hair,33844\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to read the rest of Nathan Rabin's <em>A.V. Club<\/em> review of <em>Good Hair<\/em>, now playing at Ragtag Cinema.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\"Is it possible to talk about the fascinating and complex universe of black hair without dealing with race and identity? That\u2019s the question posed by Good Hair, director Jeff Stilson and co-writer\/producer\/narrator\/star Chris Rock\u2019s charming new comic exploration of African-American hair. The film is filled with sadly telling moments, like a black beauty student telling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-films"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}