{"id":280,"date":"2007-03-02T17:32:29","date_gmt":"2007-03-03T01:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godammit.com\/2007\/03\/02\/black-sun\/"},"modified":"2007-03-23T11:11:10","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T19:11:10","slug":"black-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/black-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"black-sun.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/black-sun.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image279\" height=\"72\" alt=\"black-sun.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/black-sun.jpg?fit=640%2C72\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Years ago I read a newspaper article about an artist who was blinded when a complete stranger threw acid in his face. I\u2019ll never forget that the author of the article noted that &#8220;[the artist], who is still bitter\u2026.&#8221; Whoa! Still bitter?!&nbsp;\u00a0 What a bad sport. You mean he hasn\u2019t moved on?!<\/p>\n<p>This week, Cinemax showed a documentary about the artist, a Frenchman named Hugues de Montalembert. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e.bell.ca\/filmfest\/2005\/films_description.asp?pageID=&#038;id=40\" target=\"_blank\">Black Sun<\/a> is an engrossing, original, thought provoking film&nbsp;\u00a0that succeeds on every level. It is based on&nbsp;\u00a0Hugues de Montalembert&#8217;s&nbsp;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eclipse-Hugues-Montalembert\/dp\/1419654179\/ref=sr_1_1\/002-2418689-2473605?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1172884859&#038;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">book<\/a> about his experience and how it has affected him. What a remarkable man.<\/p>\n<p>On a personal note, I have expected someone to throw acid in my face, off and on, ever since I read that article in the late \u201970s. If it did happen, I know I would be bitter. Or rather, more bitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago I read a newspaper article about an artist who was blinded when a complete stranger threw acid in his face. I\u2019ll never forget that the author of the article noted that &#8220;[the artist], who is still bitter\u2026.&#8221; Whoa! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/black-sun\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-4w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}